A fire in a gold and metals mine in Siberia killed at least 11 miners, and rescuers were looking for another 24, a Russian emergency official said Friday.
There were 64 people in the mine when the fire started. Nineteen miners were evacuated immediately. Several other workers went out from under the ground later
By Wednesday, some 403,517 cubic meters of water had been pumped out of the shaft at the Xinjing mine in Shanxi province and 16 bodies had been recovered, the official Xinhua News Agency said
Rescuers trying to save 56 miners trapped for almost two weeks in a flooded shaft started drilling a hole Wednesday to speed up efforts to pump out water, a report said
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