“Five bodies were found, they were raised to the surface, these bodies were identified by the company's employees,” TASS quoted Tsivilev as saying.

The Governor noted that the deceased were workers at site number five of the preparatory work - Gennady Stepanovich Beloshkursky, Evgeny Borisovich Mavelyanov, Alexander Viktorovich Petrov, Anton Igorevich Trofimov and Andrey Viktorovich Shuvashov.

Earlier, the bodies of the five victims were raised to the surface from the Listvyazhnaya mine.

On November 25, an accident occurred at the Listvyazhnaya mine in Kuzbass, as a result of which 51 people died and dozens were injured.

The Investigative Committee opened a case on the negligence of Rostekhnadzor employees.

Later it became known that the director of the Listvyazhnaya mine, Sergei Makhrakov, and several other bosses were arrested in connection with the accident.