After a mining accident in Poland, two more miners were found dead. That brings the death toll to six, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday during a visit to the mining rescue center in Bytom. “This has been a dark week for Polish mining, for Silesia and for Poland.”
After a tremor at the Zofiowka coal mine in Jastrzebie-Zdroj, Upper Silesia, ten miners were missing on Saturday morning. Four of them were found dead on Sunday afternoon.
The search for other buried people continues under extreme conditions, said mine director Marcin Golebiowski. The underground temperature is over 30 degrees, the concentration of methane gas is nearly 30 percent.
On Wednesday alone there were two methane gas explosions at a mine in Silesia owned by the same company. Five people were recovered dead, seven more buried. The search for them was called off on Friday with no result because it had become too dangerous for the rescuers themselves. A sixth miner died in hospital on Sunday night from severe burns sustained in the blast.
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