Blast in Coal Mine Reportedly Kills 9

A methane gas explosion killed nine people and injured about 15 others in a coal mine in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, news reports said. A total of 59 miners were working about 2,500 feet underground at the Krasnolimanskaya mine in the town of Krasnoarmeisk at the time, said Mykhailo Kliagin, a spokesman for a militarized mine rescue service in the Donetsk. Elsewhere, three miners who were trapped underground late Friday by a coal layer collapse in the Luhansk region were rescued Saturday, the Interfax news agency reported. They were reported to be in satisfactory condition.