At 01:45 Moscow time on Friday, rescuers
accessed the miners via a 13-meter-long tunnel.
MOSCOW, December 22. /TASS/. Three workers were lifted to surface on
Friday after spending some 34 hours trapped underground in the Yesaulskaya mine
in southwestern Siberia’s Kemerovo region, a source in the regional emergencies
service told TASS.
"Three miners were lifted to surface. They are to meet their relatives soon," the source said.
"Three miners were lifted to surface. They are to meet their relatives soon," the source said.
The
information about the incident at the Yesaulskaya coalmine in Novokuznetsk came
at 3.10 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday. Rock collapsed in the mine’s airway at a
depth of 300 meters. There were 99 workers at the time of the cave-in, with 96
of them evacuated from the mine.
On
Thursday, rescuers drilled three holes to bring down blankets, food and drinking
water to the trapped miners.
At 01:45
Moscow time on Friday, rescuers accessed the trapped miners via a 13-meter-long
tunnel.
In total,
about 100 people took part in the rescue effort.
Coal
production at the mine will resume at 8:00 Moscow time on Friday.
Source: ITAR-TASS 22-12-2017
