Explosion Rocks Coal Mine, Killing 19
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From Times Wire Reports
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An explosion ripped through a coal mine in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 19 miners in the nation’s third such tragedy in less than a month.
The fate of two others in the mine was unknown, but 19 bodies were recovered, an official with the local Committee for Labor said.
The cause of the blast was not immediately known. On July 7, 35 miners died in a fire, and a July 21 blast killed six.
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