Eight miners were killed and 18 injured on Friday when a shaft collapsed at a state-owned coal mine in southern Serbia.
The Mining and Energy ministry said the accident at the Soko mine, about 250 kilometres south of Belgrade, happened when coal collapsed in an excavation chamber, leading to “a sudden penetration of methane into the working space.”
There were 49 miners on the rota at the time of the accident, most of them from the nearby town of Aleksinac.
Source: Jordan News Agency