Blast That Killed 63 Miners Probed
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Investigators descended into a coal shaft to determine what caused an accident that killed 63 miners. A lethal mixture of methane gas and coal dust exploded Saturday almost 3,600 feet down the Skachinskoho mine in Donetsk, about 390 miles southeast of Kiev. Many of the dead were young apprentices brought in recently to work the newly opened seam where the blast occurred. “My little boy, my baby,” wailed one woman as she was helped away from the pithead, where grieving relatives had gathered.
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