MOSCOW, May 19 (Reuters) - Two miners were missing after an accident in the Alexeyevskaya coal mine in Russia’s main coal producing region of Kuzbass, RIA news agency reported on Wednesday.
The accident follows major blasts at the Raspadskaya mine RASP.MM in the same region earlier this month which killed at least 66 miners. [ID:nLDE64C0A9]
RIA said 31 miners were working in the mine and 29 were rescued after the accident. (Writing by Dmitry Zhdannikov; Editing by Conor Humphries)
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