Reply #1: 'No chance' for Ukrainian miners (70 dead, 20 missing) - BBC

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Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Monday, 19 November 2007, 23:31 GMT

'No chance' for Ukrainian miners

There is no chance of finding survivors in the Zasyadco
mine in Ukraine, a senior union official has said.

Rescuers are still searching for over 20 miners trapped
underground after the blast that killed more than 70 others.

But raging underground fires have thwarted rescue efforts
in the Zasyadko mine in the eastern Donetsk region.

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The head of the Ukrainian Free Miners' Union, Mihailo
Volninets, said it was now certain that all the missing men
had died, says the BBC's Laura Sheeter, in Kiev.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7101084.stm