Death count in West Siberian mine blasts reaches 52

At least 52 people died in the two blasts that hit a west Siberian coalmine over the weekend, a regional emergencies ministry spokesman said Tuesday.”At this time a total of 52 bodies have been retrieved from the mine,” he said. “Thirty-eight people are missing.”A spokeswoman for the regional investigation department, Nadezhda Ananyeva, said relatives have identified 44 bodies.More than 70 people were injured in the explosions at the Raspadskaya coalmine, near the town of Mezhdurechensk in the Kemerovo Region.

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