13 dead, dozens are trapped in Russia for mining accident

 a few 285 humans were in the mine when smoke spread thru the ventilation shaft

at least eleven people died in an twist of fate at a coal mine in Russia's Siberia on Thursday, neighborhood government stated, as emergency workers attempted to rescue dozens greater miners who have been nonetheless trapped deep underground.

Coal dirt caught fire in a ventilation shaft in the Listvyazhnaya mine in the snowbound Kemerovo area, filling the mine with smoke, the TASS information organization noted nearby emergency offerings as saying.

eleven humans were observed lifeless, nearby Governor Sergei Tsivilev said, and 46 were still underground. Dozens of others were being handled in clinic, at the least a number of them with smoke poisoning. four had been in crucial circumstance.

Rescue employees and ambulances can be seen arriving at the mine's compound in video photos, with police huddled outside because it snowed in the place roughly three,500 km east of Moscow.

a few 285 human beings have been in the mine while smoke spread thru the ventilation shaft, the Emergency Ministry stated. at the least 239 made it above floor, authorities stated. They did no longer say what had induced the smoke.

Tsivilev said there has been now not heavy smoke inside the mine, where there has been nevertheless power and ventilation, however that touch had been lost with some people deep underground.

"For now there's no heavy smoke, so we are hoping that there may be no fire," Tsivilev stated in video remarks shared on his Telegram channel. "We haven't any communication strains with those people, the underground communications gadget isn't always operating."

The regional branch of Russia's Investigative Committee said it had opened a crook case into negligence that had triggered deaths.

"in keeping with initial data, a number of people suffered from smoke poisoning. The range of sufferers is being distinct," it said in an earlier assertion.

The mine is a part of SDS-preserving, owned via the privately held Siberian commercial enterprise Union. The union had no on the spot remark.