Two miners were killed in southern Poland and one remained trapped underground after an overnight tremor caused a partial collapse in a section of the Mysłowice-Wesoła mine, the mine's owner said on Tuesday (May 14).
The tremor occurred 870 metres (2,854 feet) underground. It had a magnitude of 2.66 in the Richter scale.
There were 15 miners in the danger zone, 12 of whom were rescued and 10 of them were taken to hospital due to their injuries, Polska Grupa Górnicza (PGG), which owns the mine, told state news agency PAP.
"Unfortunately, two of (the miners underground) were pronounced dead by the doctor," Rajmund Horst, deputy chief executive of PGG said.
Rescuers were still trying to contact a miner trapped underground with whom they have had no contact.
Horst informed later in the day that the rescue team located the missing miner's lamp. He added, however, that pit water had to be pumped out first from the search area, narrowed down to a few square meters.
It was the fourth accident causing fatalities at a coal mine in Poland this year.
Two of those accidents happened in the Mysłowice-Wesoła mine. On April 17, a tremor killed one miner and injured eight.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters, PAP
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