Rada speaker says 32 miners dead following blast in Donbas mine

11:12, 04.03.2015 1 min read

Thirty-two miners have been killed in an accident in Zasiadko coal mine in Donetsk, Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Hroisman said.

"A tragedy happened at the Zasiadko mine this morning. There are fatalities. There are 32 of them at the moment," Hroisman said at a parliamentary session on Wednesday morning.

He asked the parliamentarians to pay tribute to the memory of those killed.

The Zasiadko mine is located on a territory not controlled by Kyiv.