Miners being evacuated after fire at Evraz-owned mine in Russia (updated)

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10/10/2023 08:52

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       MOSCOW, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Miners were being evacuated
from a coal mine owned by Russian steel producer Evraz  EVRE.L 
in the Kemerovo region after a fire broke out, local emergency
services said on Tuesday.
    "Evacuation of the miners is being carried out," the
Kemerovo emergency services said, reporting that a degassing box
had caught fire on the surface.
    "There was a report of a fire on the territory of the
Yerunakovskaya mine, the mine was stopped, the workers are
independently rising to the surface," Interfax quoted emergency
services as saying earlier. 
    Evraz and mine operator Raspadskaya  RASP.MM  did not
immediately respond to requests for comment.    
    Interfax quoted a Raspadskaya spokesperson as saying that
the fire would not affect operations. 
    The fire is not in the mine itself, but associated with a
"surface fan", it said. 
    "There is no open fire, but people are being taken out
according to regulations," Interfax quoted the spokesperson as
saying.
    There were more than 250 miners in the mine at the time of
the fire, Interfax reported.

 (Reporting by Reuters; writing by Alexander Marrow; editing by
Kirsten Donovan and Jason Neely)
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