The number of casualties resulting from a coal mine fire in Kazakhstan, owned by ArcelorMittal, has increased to 45, as per the emergency service officials quoted on October 29. They are actively engaged in an operation to locate a single miner who is believed to still be underground.
On October 28, ArcelorMittal Temirtau, the operator of the Kostenko mine and a local unit of the Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal, reported that 206 out of 252 individuals at the mine had been successfully evacuated following what appeared to be a methane explosion. Gennady Silinsky, a senior official from the emergency services, confirmed the death toll on October 29, and the rescue operation was ongoing in Karaganda, a significant coal mining hub in Kazakhstan, as reported on Kazakhstan's Khabar-24 television.
"Work is going on round the clock in shifts in two areas of operations," Murat Katpanov, another emergency official, told Khabar-24. "Gas levels are normal. There are no visible signs of fire."
Previous statements indicated that rescue efforts in the two areas, located 4 km (approximately 2.5 miles) apart, were hindered by power outages and damaged equipment.
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