All 128 Miners Safely Evacuated After Incident at Russian Mine

All 128 Miners Safely Evacuated After Incident at Russian Mine
Rescuers in the Kemerovo region, Russia, on Nov. 25, 2021. Alexander Patrin/AFP via Getty Images
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MOSCOW—All 128 miners were evacuated from a Siberian coal mine on Sunday after fire sensors were triggered, Russia’s emergencies ministry said, just weeks after a blast at a mine in the same region killed 51 people.

The SUEK coal company, which owns the Ruban mine in Russia’s Kemerovo region, said sensors had detected an increase in carbon monoxide emissions, caused by a seam heating up, but it had not ignited and there was no fire.