“The head of the LC, Leonid Pasechnik, went to the place of the tragedy,” Lugansk Information Center quotes the message.
Earlier it became known that at least two people died as a result of an emergency that occurred at the Shidkarbon mine in the village of Yuryevka. 15 people are missing.
The EMERCOM of Russia said that the department, at the request of the LC, would send a detachment of mine rescuers to the mine where the accident had occurred.