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Two miners found dead, 28 still trapped after accident at Russian mine

Two miners were found dead on Thursday evening and the search for 28 more miners was continuing after an accident in a coal mine owned by a subsidiary of Severstal in Russia’s northern Komi Republic.

At the moment when the accident happened in coal-mining town Vorkuta, 110 people were in the mine and 80 of them were taken to the surface as of 16:55 GMT, Severstal’s subsidiary Vorkutaugol said in a statement.