A gas explosion on Sunday killed six miners and injured seven others at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, emergency officials said. At the time of the blast at a mine in the Luhansk region, 171 miners were underground, said Volodymyr Ovsyannyk, a spokesman for the Emergency Situations Ministry Six miners died on the spot, seven were hospitalized and 158 others were evacuated, Ovsyannyk said. In northwest Turkey, a methane gas explosion collapsed a coal mine on Sunday, killing two miners, local officials said. The collapse occurred near the village of Gokcesu in Bolu province, Gokcesu's mayor, Vahit Aydin, told the Associated Press by telephone. The area is 125 miles northwest of Ankara. Ali Fuat Atik, the governor for the nearby town of Mengen, told the state-owned Anatolia news agency the collapse was caused by a methane gas explosion.
