MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Severnaya mine collapsed on February 25. Another blast hit the mine in the early hours of Sunday. The tragic incident claimed the lives of 36 people, including 5 rescuers.
"We're talking about the preliminary causes. Those technologies that were applied at the mine, they exclude such accidents… So there was a kind of anomaly in the gob [part of the mine from which the coal has been removed and the space more or less filled up with waste]," Aleksei Aleshin said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Rostechnadzor is organizing a meeting for Russia’s best experts and specialists from universities and the Academy of Sciences to try to find out the reasons for the mine collapse, how such phenomena might be predicted in the future, and most importantly, how to prevent similar accidents, he explained.
