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President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on safety at coal mining companies, Kuzbass expressed his condolences to the families of the miners who died in the accident at the Listvažna mine. The victims of the emergency were 46 miners and five mine rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, there are about a hundred people on the victim lists.
“Ordinary misfortune and sorrow for Kuzbass and for all Russia,” Putin said.
He also wished “ early recovery to all the victims. >
The head of state called for to find out all the circumstances and reasons why it happened.
In the criminal case of Listvjažnaja, the director of the company and his deputy, the head of the mining department and also two employees of Rostekhnadzor were arrested. The Kremlin said the national mourning would not be declared.
“There was grief in the region,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, adding that he the whole country. “;.