Blast mine rescue work goes on

Rescue workers today pulled 17 more bodies out of a blazing shaft where a methane gas explosion killed at least 36 miners, a union chief said.

At least 10 miners were still missing after the explosion, which happened yesterday morning at the Zasiadko mine, in the coal-rich Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, said the pit’s miners’ union chief, Yuriy Zayats.