11:38 11.07.2014

Four miners killed, 16 injured after artillery shell hits bus in Chervonopartyzansk - DTEK

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Four miners killed, 16 injured after artillery shell hits bus in Chervonopartyzansk - DTEK

Four miners have been killed and 16 more injured after an artillery shell hit a bus carrying miners of DTEK's Chervonopartyzansk mine administration, DTEK Director General Maksym Tymchenko has said.

"Four have been killed, 16 wounded, and two seriously injured minersare in intensive care," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

He also said that DTEK had decided to suspend the operation of four mines in the Luhansk region for safety to life and health of employees. Tymchenko noted that about 4,500 people worked at these mines.

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