A dramatic rescue operation of captured miners is underway

As RTS reports, the action of pulling the miners out of the pit is in progress, and a dozen of them have already been saved.
There were 49 miners in the mine at the time of the accident, and the Aleksinac shift was there.
The injured are being transferred to the hospital in Aleksinac and Clinical Center Nis.

The names of the killed miners have been announced: The youngest was only 31 years old

The director of the PE PEU Resavica, Sasa Spasic, announced the names of the dead miners who died this morning in the "Soko" mine.
He expressed his condolences to the families of the victims.
Spasic said that this accident took the lives of the following miners:
Zlatkovi Darko - 1979
Trivunac Nenad - 1985
Gruji Radovan - 1975
Petrovic Petar - 1991
okorilo Branko - 1966
Zlatanovi Branislav - 1967
Zivkovic Bratislav - 1963
Staji Bojan - 1988