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KIEV, Ukraine — An explosion early Saturday shook the coal mine where 100 people died in a methane blast two weeks ago, injuring 44 miners but causing no deaths, officials said.
All 385 people who were underground at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk at the time of the explosion have been evacuated, said Marina Nikitina, a local officer of Gosgorpromnadzor, the country’s industrial safety agency.
The Nov. 18 blast at Zasyadko was the worst coal-mining disaster in Ukraine’s post- Soviet history. Ukraine’s mines are regarded as some of the world’s most dangerous, partly because many are in poor repair. In addition, they typically are more than 3,000 feet deep — twice the depth of most European coal beds.
