Ukraine rescuers search for blast survivors

Rescuers battled a raging fire and deadly gases deep in an eastern Ukrainian coal mine today, looking for survivors from a methane gas explosion that killed at least 25 miners.

Oleh Venzhyk, a spokesman for the Ministry for Emergency Situations, said the blast hit a section of the Krasnolimanskaya mine in the Donetsk region, about 3,000 feet below the surface.