Many welcomed the government’s move towards nationalisation, angered by the company’s safety record.ĭaniar Mustafin, a 42-year-old salesman, said he favoured “full nationalisation without material compensation for the current owners”. “Every miner is a hero, because when he goes down, he does not know if he will come back or not,” said former miner Sergei Glazkov. It also came just two months after another incident killed five miners.Īnger and disbelief reigned after the disaster in Karaganda, central Kazakhstan. The death toll overtook a 2006 accident that killed 41 miners at another ArcelorMittal site. Rescuers earlier warned that finding the remaining miners alive were “very low”, due to the lack of ventilation and the force of Saturday’s explosion, which spread 2 kilometres. “As of 3pm the bodies of 42 people were found,” Kazakhstan’s emergency services said on social media. The tragedy, which struck at the Kostenko coal mine in the Karaganda region Saturday, came after a series of deadly incidents at ArcelorMittal mines and has prompted the nationalisation of the company’s local affiliate. KARAGANDA, KAZAKHSTAN - Kazakhstan held nationwide mourning on Sunday after 42 people died in a blaze at an ArcelorMittal mine, the worst accident in the Central Asian country’s post-Soviet history.
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