Filling the Listvyazhnaya mine with methane is carried out to avoid a possible fire or explosion. This was announced on November 26 by a former mine worker Alexander Ilchuk.
“The governor said that the search was suspended due to the fact that there is gas there, as its level goes down, it will be resumed. I have been working as a miner for 18 years, a very long time … They stopped the fans, the air supply to the mine. The gas by itself will not evaporate, by airing, it can only be vented with fans, they stopped them so that there was no fire. After that, methane began to rise, “he said. REN TV…
According to Ilchuk, all work has been stopped so far, and the rescuers have been dismissed.
He also said that at 15:44 the day before, on November 25, a second explosion occurred in the mine, which “is not being spoken about.”
Ilchuka noted that the continuation of rescue operations in conditions of such a concentration of methane in the mine was very dangerous.
As the Governor of the Kemerovo Region Sergey Tsivilev said earlier on Friday, filling the mine workings with methane is necessary for the gas concentration to reach a safe level and allow further work to be continued. According to him, it is required for the methane level to reach over 20% when the risk of explosion decreases.
On the morning of November 25, smoke began to form in the mine workings of Listvyazhnaya Mine LLC. The accident killed 46 miners and six rescuers. The combustion products poisoned 67 people, of whom 39 were hospitalized. In total, there were 285 people in the mine.
The regional governor also reported that eleven rescuers were hospitalized after the evacuation, one of them was diagnosed with a head injury, and another 10 people were poisoned by combustion products.
A criminal case was initiated into the incident. The Investigative Committee reported the arrest of three people after the death of people at the mine. We are talking about the 47-year-old director of the mine, his 59-year-old first deputy and 36-year-old site manager.
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