MOSCOW, November 25 (RIA Novosti) – Four miners were injured early on Sunday in an explosion at a coal mine in western Siberia, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said.
The incident occurred at the Gramoteyevskaya coal mine near the town of Belovo in the Kemerovo region at 04.56 Moscow time (00:56 GMT).
“The explosion, caused by a build-up of methane gas, did not start a fire or triggered a ceiling collapse,” the ministry said in a statement.
“A total of 55 miners were rescued; four of them received various injuries,” the statement said.
High concentration of methane remains the major cause of deadly incidents at Russian coal mines.
Two powerful methane blasts at the Raspadskaya mine near the west-Siberian town of Mezhdurechensk in May, 2010, killed 91 people, including rescue workers. Only 80 bodies have been uncovered from the mine.
Kemerovo is part of Russia’s major coal-producing Kuzbass region.
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