"Following the visit to the mine, the prime minister plans to visit the injured [miners] in hospital. He noted that 19 miners had been hospitalized, four had been transported to the hospitals in Lviv," Groysman’s press service said Thursday.
Local police reported that the criminal case over the incident had already been initiated.
Following the incident Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko declared all-Ukrainian mourning and ordered to carry out inspections of the country's coal mines.
The Stepnaya mine has been in operation since 1978 and is considered dangerous due to large amounts of methane in its coal deposits.
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