3 workers were killed after part of a gold mine collapsed in Far East Russia $ s Kamchatka peninsula, the head of the local Emergency Situations Ministry said Thursday.
The men were working at the Kumroch mine, situated in Kamchatka $ s Ust-Kamchatsky District, when one of the shafts collapsed.
The website is run by the Bystrinskaya Mining Company and is anticipated to start full mining and processing production by 2026.
According to Sergey Lebedev, who heads the regional Emergency Situations Ministry, a rescue team was dispatched to the area of the cave-in, after which the bodies of the three miners were pulled from the rubble.Earlier this week, a comparable mining accident took place in western Siberia $ s Kemerovo area, where one employee was eliminated following a rock slide.That incident happened 2 days after another deadly accident at the Denisovsky Vostochny coal mine in Far East Russia $ s republic of Sakha (Yakutia).