The bodies of 38 miners have been recovered from a southern Siberian coal mine after a deadly methane explosion, the latest deadly accident to hit Russia’s ailing mining industry.

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.

A methane gas explosion in a Siberian coal mine killed at least nine miners today, a Russian emergency official said.