Reply #5: Death toll now standing at 106 (according to the BBC)

[Nihil]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6469339.stm

> Virtually the whole of the mine's management died in the blast.
> A British engineer was also among the dead.
> Rescuers described a scene of utter devastation, with collapsed
> and flooded mineshafts and bodies ripped apart.
> ...
> There were thought to be about 200 miners working in the mine
> when the methane exploded.
> There were conflicting reports as to whether the rescue teams
> had managed to make contact with any of the missing miners.
> "We just hope that they are alive," said one miner taking part
> in the rescue operation, his face caked with coal dust.

Most telling ...
> But the Ulyanovskaya mine was opened only four-and-a-half years
> ago and Governor Tuleyev said the mine had been fitted with modern
> equipment.

... obviously not including geiger counters to detect the pending
nuclear explosion that poisoned ... ah ... ok, it's just coal ...