“A pre-investigation check is carried out on the fact of smoke in the mine. Investigators left for the place, ”TASS quoted and. about. senior assistant to the head of the republican investigative department for media relations, Sergei Lukyanenko.

Earlier, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that three miners disappeared after smoke in the oil mine in Ukhta.

In total, 45 workers were in the mine at the time of the emergency.