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An earthquake in central Bosnia collapsed a coal mine, leaving five miners dead and 29 trapped.
An earthquake in central Bosnia collapsed a coal mine, leaving five miners dead and 29 trapped.
According to Reuters:
Thursday’s 3.5-magnitude earthquake near the central Bosnian town of Zenica caused rocks in the nearby mine to fracture explosively, officials said. Thirty-nine miners died in a rock burst in Raspotocje in 1982, and Civic said two previous rock bursts at the mine this year had injured 16.
Nermin Niksic, the prime minister of Bosnia’s Bosniak-Croat federation, said:
The mining accident in the Raspotocje pit is a huge tragedy for all of Bosnia and Herzegovina. We lost five lives, unfortunately.