In the case of a methane gas explosion in a Czech coal mine for at least 13 miners were killed. Ten more people were injured. Eleven of the dead are from Poland.
In the East of the Czech Republic came at a major mining accident in a coal mine at least 13 workers lost their lives. A further ten had been injured, said a spokesman for the mining company OKD.
According to initial findings of an air-methane gas ignited underground mixture. It came at a depth estimated to be around 800 meters to a dreaded firedamp explosion, all the work destroyed areas. The Mine rescue team searched in depth for possible Victims and Survivors. For the removal of the injured rescue were on the surface car and a helicopter ready. Eleven of the in of the mine workers mine workers are from the middle of Poland.
studs at a depth up to 1100 meters
The mine, near the city of Karvina, about 300 kilometres East of Prague, since 1968, and it was modernized a few years ago. The tunnels lie at a depth of up to 1100 meters. The misfortune is a great pre-Christmas tragedy, said the mayor of the adjacent mountain municipality of Stonava, Ondrej Feber, the online edition of the newspaper “Pravo”.
The mine operator OKD in April and again in the possession of the Czech state. The government in Prague had taken over the business after the bankruptcy for the equivalent of around three million euros. The company is engaged in the structurally weak Region of around 9500 people. This year, around five million tons of coal were mined.
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