A methane explosion tore through a coal mine in southern Siberia, killing 35 people and injuring seven others, emergency officials said today.

At least 16 people were killed when a methane explosion tore through a coal mine in Siberia, emergency officials said.

Searchers today found the bodies of two victims missing after a methane blast last month at a Siberian coal mine, bringing the death toll in Russia’s worst mine disaster in more than a decade to 110, an official said.

One hundred and six people have been killed in a methane gas explosion in a Siberian coal mine – Russia’s deadliest mining disaster in a decade.