MOSCOW (Reuters) - Miners were being evacuated from a coal mine owned by Russian steel producer Evraz in the Kemerovo region after a fire broke out, local emergency services said on Tuesday.
"Evacuation of the miners is being carried out," the Kemerovo emergency services said, reporting that a degassing box had caught fire on the surface.
"There was a report of a fire on the territory of the Yerunakovskaya mine, the mine was stopped, the workers are independently rising to the surface," Interfax quoted emergency services as saying earlier.
Interfax quoted a Raspadskaya spokesperson as saying that the fire would not affect operations.
"There is no open fire, but people are being taken out according to regulations," Interfax quoted the spokesperson as saying.
Persons:
Evraz, Alexander Marrow, Kirsten Donovan, Jason Neely
Organizations:
Reuters
Locations:
MOSCOW, Russian, Kemerovo