All miners evacuated after fire at Evraz-owned mine in Russia

All miners were evacuated from a coal mine owned by Russian steel producer Evraz in the Kemerovo region after a fire broke out on Tuesday, the mine’s operator and local emergency services said.
“A fire occurred on the surface,” a spokesperson for the mine’s operator Raspadskaya said.
“All employees were taken out of the mine. Their lives and health are not threatened.”
Russia’s coal-rich Kemerovo region is no stranger to mining disasters. In 2007, it saw the worst mining accident since the collapse of the Soviet Union when an explosion at the Ulyanovskaya mine claimed the lives of more than 100 people. In 2010, explosions at the Raspadskaya mine killed more than 90 people.
Another explosion claimed 51 lives in 2021.