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Death toll rises to 18 in Ukrainian mine blast

10:18 30/07/2011

KIEV, July 30 (RIA Novosti)

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The number of people killed in Sukhodilska-Vostochnaya Mine blast in Ukraine’s Luhansk Region has reached 18, the regional Emergencies Ministry said on Saturday.

“As of 07:00 a.m. (08:00 a.m. Moscow time) July 30, 18 people have died, two injured, while 8 people are still missing,” the ministry said in a statement.

The blast occurred at the Sukhodilska-Vostochnaya Mine operated by Metinvest, Ukraine's largest steel producer, on Friday at 01:57 a.m. (02:57 a.m. Moscow time). The mine’s overall staff amounted to 28 miners.

Mining accidents are frequent in Ukraine. In 2007, more than 100 miners died in a blast at a mine near Donetsk, in the east of the former Soviet republic.

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