“We presume it was an explosion of gas-air mixture. There were 47 people in the mine, 33 of them at the location where the blast happened,” the ministry stated, as quoted by TASS.
“One dead miner and five injured have been lifted to the surface, with three of the injured in a critical condition,” the head of the Kievsky district in Donetsk, Ivan Prikhodko, told LifeNews website.
He added that there is no connection with the remaining miners, who are 200 meters underground.
The Zasyadko mine is known for deadly incidents, with over 200 miners having been killed over the past few years.
The biggest blast happened in November 2007, with 101 killed in the explosion. Two weeks later, two more explosions rocked the mine, leaving five more people dead.
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