The location of 14 victims of the accident at the Listvyazhnaya mine has been identified

Emergencies Ministry rescuers have identified the location of the bodies of 12 miners and two mine rescuers who died in the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Kemerovo region. The search continues for 15 more victims of the incident.

According to Nikolai Medvedev, General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise of the Militarized Mine Rescue Unit (MES) of the EMERCOM of Russia, searches are ongoing, as well as measures to check emergency areas. This will accelerate the pace of searches and liquidation of the consequences of the emergency.

On December 2, 22 bodies of the dead were raised to the surface.

Recall that the tragedy at the Listvyazhnaya mine in the Belovsky urban district of the Kemerovo region happened on November 25. On this day, 285 people were underground. Most of them managed to rise to the surface on their own.

As a result of the fire that started at the mine , 51 people died, including rescuers who went down into the mine to help the miners. Another 99 people were injured.