Bosnian Mine Accident: 5 Miners Killed

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.

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