63 Die in Ukraine Mine Blast
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DONETSK, Ukraine — A methane blast ripped through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine early yesterday, killing at least 63 miners in the ex-Soviet nation’s worst mining accident in years, emergency officials said. More than 360 miners were rescued but 37 others remained trapped inside the mine — one of Ukraine’s largest and deepest — with a raging fire hampering efforts to save them, officials said.
