Bodies of dead miners recovered from shaft after pulp breach: rescue operation lasted over 14 days
Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of two miners from the shaft where a pulp breach recently occurred. The rescue operation lasted more than 14 days at the minus-410-meter horizon, Ukraine's State Emergency Service reports.
The original SES post mentioned a mine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, but the reference was later removed, indicating the incident likely took place at the Inhulska mine in Kirovohrad Oblast.
Pulp in a mine is a mixture of fine solid minerals (sand, granulated slag) and water.
Mountain rescuers worked under extremely difficult conditions. They had to clear the accident's fallout and search for the miners caught in the breach epicenter.
The operation was complicated by the huge volume of pulp. Enterprise workers, miners and rescuers had to pump water from flooded horizons, reload and remove pulp, and locate and evacuate the victims' bodies.
On November 12, an emergency occurred at the Inhulska mine: pulp leaked from a worked-out block underground, flooding two horizons.
Four employees of private company Svitex were in the affected section. Two managed to exit the danger zone on their own and were quickly brought to the surface. The other two stopped responding. One body was found on November 17; the second was located 10 days later.
A special investigation commission formed by the State Labor Service is determining the circumstances of the accident.
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