Cave-in leaves two miners dead, one missing and 12 injured at Polish coal mine

An ambulance leaving the Myslowice-Wesola coal mine in Myslowice, southern Poland (Kasia Zaremba-Majcher/AP)

Two miners were killed and one remains missing after a cave-in at the Myslowice-Wesola coal mine in southern Poland in which 12 other miners were hurt, mining authorities said.

The cave-in happened around 3.30am on Tuesday, some 870 metres (2,800 feet) underground in an area where 15 miners were working, said Rajmund Horst, the deputy head of the company that runs the mine.