A RIA Novosti source in the emergency services of the Kemerovo region on Sunday, December 19, reported a fire at the Ruban mine.
According to him, there are 128 miners underground, they are taken to the surface.
As Interfax was told v isThere were no casualties as a result of the incident to the second dispatcher service on duty.
“According to preliminary data, an abandoned adit is on fire, the miners are being taken out of the neighboring adits, there is no threat to their lives, and there are no casualties either,” the message says.
At the same time, according to TASS, no fire was detected in the mine, temperature and carbon monoxide sensors worked.
“The reservoir has heated up, the accident elimination plan has been activated, the miners are coming to the surface,” the agency notes, citing a representative of SUEK-Kuzbass.
On the morning of November 25, an accident occurred at the Listvyazhnaya mine in Kuzbass. As a result of the incident, 51 people died, 58 were hospitalized. In total, there were 285 people in the mine.
On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 217 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of industrial safety requirements for hazardous production facilities, resulting in the death of a person by negligence”), as well as a criminal case on the fact of negligence of employees of the Rostekhnadzor department.
On December 16, investigators managed to establish the shadow owner of the mine and the SDS-Ugol holding, who turned out to be a former State Duma deputy Vladimir Gridin. One of the arrested managers gave testimony about the real owner of the business, but the investigators did not have time to interrogate Gridin, since the other day he unexpectedly flew to Monaco. It is noted that Gridin ran a business, being a deputy of the State Duma of the fifth and sixth convocations, holding the post of deputy chairman of the transport committee.
Source: IZ
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