Number of people who died in accidents at Ukrainian mines reaches 26

Two miners who suffered from the blast are in the intensive care department now, the doctors claim their condition as hard, ВВС reports.

The accidents in the mine "Sukhadolskaya-Eastern" and the mine named after Bazhanau occurred on Friday morning. A blast happened at the depth of 915 meters in the first mine, and soon after that a 70-meters elevator for taking people up and down to the mine fell down in the mine named after Bazhanau.