Two people killed in fire at Spitsbergen mine

By RIA Novosti,

Stockholm : A Russian and Ukrainian national were killed in a fire in a mine on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the press attache of the Russian embassy in Norway said on Thursday.


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At the time of the fire there were 31 miners working underground in Barentsburg, a settlement comprising mostly Russians and Ukrainians, said Yevgeny Kolesnikov.

The reasons for the fire are being investigated.

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