Twelve dead in Russian mine blast

Published: 10 May 2010 y., Monday

Twelve men died, forty one were injured and more than eighty were still trapped underground after a build up of methane gas caused an explosion at the Raspadskaya mine in Russia early on Sunday.

Šaltinis: Reuters
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