WV EXPERIENCING ANOTHER MINING DISASTER - Twenty Confirmed Dead

(04/06/2010)

7:30 AM - 25 Dead in W.Va. Mine Blast, 4 Missing, 2 Injured; Rescue Efforts Suspended 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.

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