Location:
, Kemerovo Region, Russia
Post Date:
Nov 28, 2021 1:08 AM
TAG ID:
tassphotos409113
(RM)
Credit:
Kirill Kukhmar/TASS/Newscom
Format:
5472 x 3648 Color JPEG
Photographer:
Kirill Kukhmar
Keywords:
accident, disaster
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
KEMEROVO REGION, RUSSIA - NOVEMBER 28, 2021: Flowers and candles are pictured at an entrance to the Listvyazhnaya coal mine in the town of Belovo in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin in Kemerovo Region, southwestern Siberia. In the morning of November 25, coal dust caught fire in a ventilation shaft some 250 meters underground, filling the mine with smoke. At the time of the accident 285 miners were in the mine; 239 people were evacuated, 57 got injured, 51 died, including 5 mine-rescuers. Established in 2003 at the Inskaya Mine, the Listvyazhnaya mine is part of the SDS-Ugol coal-mining company. Kirill Kukhmar/TASS