The number of victims of the fire in the Kuzbass mine rises to ten

This was reported by Interfax, citing an informed source.

Let us remind you that today there was smoke in the ventilation hatch of the mine, in which there were 285 workers at that time. Over 230 miners were brought to the surface.

On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was opened under the article on violation of the industrial safety requirements of hazardous production facilities, which, through negligence, entailed the death of a person.

Earlier it was reported that 48 miners could not come to the surface, and that after the fire in Listvyazhnaya, two people were hospitalized in serious condition. The evacuation of 115 miners was carried out.

At the moment, it is known that an EMERCOM board is going to the region with doctors, psychologists and a task force headed by the Acting Head of the RF EMERCOM Alexander Chupriyan. He specified that 44 miners were hospitalized from the scene of the accident, four of them are in serious condition.