Severstal Mine Blasts Kill as Many as 36 Workers in Russia
- May be Russia's deadliest coal mine accident since 2010
- Technical council concluded there can't be any survivors
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As many as 36 people died in what could be Russia’s deadliest coal mine accident since 2010 after a series of gas blasts at a unit of billionaire Alexey Mordashov’s Severstal PJSC led rescue efforts to be called off.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich spoke to reporters at the Severnaya mine in Vorkuta on Sunday, saying up to 36 people can be considered victims, according to Interfax. Efforts to find 26 miners missing after a Thursday blast at the mine were called off after a government-company technical council concluded there can’t be any survivors, Denis Paikin, technical director for Severstal’s Vorkutaugol unit, which operates the mine, said earlier in the day.