Nova.rs: Serbia’s miners protested for ten days before eight of them died

NEWS 01.04.202216:56 0 komentara
RUDARI SOKO NESREĆA
Tanjug/MRE/Zoran Petrović

A relative of one of the eight pitmen who died at the Soko coal mine in eastern Serbia early on Friday told Nova.rs website they went to work, warning it was dangerous for ten days.

Eight miners died, and at least 20 were injured in a methane gas explosion. Minister of Mining and Energy Zorana Mihajlovic said the cause of death was not the explosion but methane suffocation.

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„They protested over the work, wanted to stop going. Still, they worked there for days and were aware of the danger while digging under the lake. No one tells us anything… when you call the mine, they don’t have any information. We do not know exactly what happened,“ the son-in-law of one of the miners told the website.

He added that „people have to work. Those are not some salaries, but they have to work… they knew they were in danger. While preparing for lunch, he told us: ‘Maybe I’ll see you for the last time.'“

The Friday tragedy was not the first in ‘Soko’ mine since it had been opened in 1898. One of the most significant accidents happened in 1998, when toxic gases erupted, claiming 29 lives, ten of whom were exposed to the heat and mechanical shock of the explosion, and the other 19 miners suffocated because there was not enough oxygen.

Due to the ignition and explosion of methane in 1974, 15 pitmen died, while the following year, there was an explosion of gas and materials, killing five diggers.

There were several other accidents in the mine in which individual miners died at work.

About 300 diggers work in the mine, one of four operational in the east and south of the country, employing roughly 600 miners.

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