Over 100 Workers Evacuated as Mine Catches Fire in Urals

2013/04/24

MOSCOW, April 25 (RIA Novosti) - A total of 122 workers were evacuated from a mine in the Urals that caught fire early on Thursday, no one was injured, the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported.


A drill repair shop at a depth of 920 meters (3,018 feet) in the Novo-Kalyinskaya mine in the Sverdlovsk Region caught fire shortly after midnight.


The fire has been extinguished.



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