Sasa Spasic
Methane Explosion in Serbian Soko Mine Kills Eight Miners
Part of the pit at the Soko coal mine collapsed and caused a methane explosion, leaving eight miners dead and at least 18 injured on Friday.
Sasa Spasic, director of the Public Enterprise for Underground Coal Exploitation Resavica, announced the names of the dead, while the number of injured miners is not yet definite.
The first statements of the mine director; The Minister expressed her condolences
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mining and Energy, Prof. Dr. Zorana Mihajlovi visited the "Soko" mine where the accident happened this morning.
She expressed her condolences to the families of the killed miners.
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.