An explosion tore through a Siberian coal mine Wednesday, killing two miners, the Emergency Situations Ministry said. Three miners who were in the immediate vicinity of the blast, in a storeroom of the Severnaya mine in the republic of Khakasiya, managed to escape but two of their colleagues were killed, said ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov. Thirty-nine other miners were evacuated safely from the shaft, he was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.
