Twenty-three people died and three others were injured Sunday in an explosion at a coal mine in the Karaganda region, officials said
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7 December 2004 y., Tuesday
Twenty-three people died and three others were injured Sunday in an explosion at a coal mine in the Karaganda region, officials said.
Eighty-seven miners were working at the mine in the town of Shakhtinsk about 120 miles south of the capital, Astana, when the blast occurred at 3:08 a.m., said regional administration spokesman Zhanibek Sadykanov.
Two injured miners were hospitalized and a third was released after treatment, he said.
President Nursultan Nazarbayev sent a letter of condolence to the families of the victims and ordered the government to pay them compensation, as well as carry out a full investigation, officials said.
Sadykanov said a special commission was investigating the cause of the blast.
Rescue operations were complete and work had started on restoring the mine, which is owned by Kazakhstan's ISPAT-Karmet metal giant, said Nakyp Kapbasov, deputy regional emergencies agency chief.
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