23 January,2014 08:15 AM IST | | Agencies
Russian officials say a methane gas explosion has ripped through a coal mine and killed two miners
Moscow: A total of 105 miners were in the Dzerzhinsky mine in the Kemerovo region of Siberia when the gas exploded just before 9:30 p.m. yesterday.
The regional administration said in a statement that two of the miners died, but the rest had made it out alive. The cause of the blast was unknown.
The regional administration said an investigation was underway.
