“In total, there were 45 miners in the mine of the Yareganft enterprise. Now there is an evacuation, 33 people are already on the surface, another nine miners are helping rescuers. There is no connection with the three miners, ”the press service of the TASS department quotes.
RIA Novosti specified in the republic’s emergency services that the smoke had occurred at a depth of 200 meters.
There are 12 rescuers working at the site of the emergency, the mine is suspended.
In October, a worker suffered from shedding rocks in a mine in Khakassia.