12:30 AM - West Virginia is suffering another mine disaster, with 12 miners killed and 14 unaccounted, following an explosion in a Raleigh County mine.

It is shades of the Sago disaster.

The explosion is at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine-South near Naoma.

Officials fear the death toll will be high.

Mine safety experts have been told the explosion is believed to have involved methane inside a sealed area of the mine or methane that leaked out of the seals.