KIEV (CNN) — At least 32 miners were killed Wednesday in an explosion in Zasyadko mine in the Donetsk region, Ukraine’s state-run Ukrinform news agency reported.
Speaker Volodymyr Groysman announced the toll in a statement to Parliament and called for a moment’s silence, Ukrinform said.
The explosion occurred just before 6 a.m. local time, when there were 230 people at the mine, the official website for Donetsk City said.
Of those, 157 were evacuated in the initial hours after the blast, including 14 injured and one dead, it said. Fifteen rescue teams are working at the scene, it added.
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