Reply #1: Reuters: Hope fades for 15 miners trapped in Polish mine

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Hope fades for 15 miners trapped in Polish mine
22 Nov 2006 11:11:34 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Wojciech Zurawski

RUDA SLASKA, Poland, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Hopes of saving 15 miners trapped deep
underground in a Polish coal mine faded on Wednesday as rising gas levels and
flooding forced a temporary break in rescue efforts.

More than 50 emergency workers dug through 500 metres of rubble overnight to try
to save the miners left in a shaft about 1 km beneath the town of Ruda Slaska,
300 km (190 miles) southwest of the capital of Warsaw, after a gas explosion
on Tuesday.

At least eight other miners were killed by the blast.

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Emergency workers detected dangerous methane levels in the Halemba mine's shaft
and said the blast may have damaged a pump, flooding the area and leaving little
hope that anybody could still be found alive.

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