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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap Russian mine blast kills 12, traps over 80 AFP - Monday, May 10 Send IM Story Print A Russian miner takes a break from his work in 2009. Eighty miners and rescuers were trapped in a Russian mine Sunday after a twin methane gas blasts killed 12 and then ensnared the salvage workers who descended down the shaft to find survivors. MOSCOW (AFP) - – Over 80 miners and rescuers were trapped in a Russian mine Sunday after twin methane gas blasts killed 12 and then ensnared the salvage workers who descended down the shaft to find survivors. Rescue efforts were suspended at the Raspadskaya mine in the Kemerovo region of southwestern Siberia due to the dangerous conditions, with the local governor saying ordering more rescue workers inside would be a death sentence. "It is clear that the situation at the mine is very hard. I would say that it is tragic," said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, quoted by the Interfax news agency. "The saddest thing is that we cannot send in additional rescuers now as it is very dangerous due to the lack of ventilation. But we cannot sit on our hands and must do everything to save people," he added. The tragedy cast a shadow on a military parade in Moscow to mark the Soviet victory over the Nazis 65 years ago in World War II, the biggest event of its kind since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The first blast went off late Saturday at around 1700 GMT while 370 people were working in the mine and three hundred miners managed to climb to the surface themselves. Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu said 12 miners were killed and 55 wounded, the Interfax news agency said. But around two hours later -- after rescuers had entered the mine to find survivors and bring corpses to the surface -- a second explosion went off, trapping both the remaining miners and the rescue workers themselves. There are now 83 people trapped in the mine, including 19 rescue workers, Shoigu said. Seven corpses have already been pulled to the surface. The emergency situations ministry said that rescue efforts had been suspended due to the treacherous conditions inside the mine, Russia's largest stand-alone coking coal producer "The rescue efforts will resume once the atmosphere is restored in the mine," said Kemerovo region's governor Aman Tuleyev, according to the ITAR-TASS news agency. "But to carry out rescue work now -- that would be sending people to their deaths," he added. Confronting terrified relatives of those missing outside the mine, he said that the rescue efforts could only resume once the gas in the mine shaft had dispersed. Some 230 rescue workers have been sent to the scene as well as 50 units of equipment. However what work they can do in the current circumstances is unclear. Raspadskaya is part-owned by steelmaker Evraz, a company 36 percent-owned by Chelsea Football Club's billionaire chief Roman Abramovich. It supplies coking coal to several metallurgical plants in Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Asia. "After the second explosion, we lost contact with three groups of rescue workers -- we are talking about 20 people," an official from the company that runs the mine told Interfax. Another company source told ITAR-TASS that there had been a sudden build-up of methane gas inside the mine and the miners had no time to escape before the explosion. A criminal investigation has been launched for "negligence of security rules in mining", the investigative committee said. Putin ordered Shoigu to fly to the scene while Tuleyev cancelled his attendance at the local Victory Day parade to take part in the rescue effort. Deadly mine accidents are relatively common in Russia because of ageing infrastructure and violations of safety regulations. The mineral-rich Kemerovo region has seen investment slide since the collapse of the Soviet Union and there have been several accidents in mines in recent years claiming dozens of lives. Russia has been blighted in the last few years by tragedies at energy facilities, most notably a flood at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant in August that killed 75 people. After the August tragedy at the Sayano-Shushenskaya dam in the Khakasia region of southern Siberia, Medvedev admitted that Russia was "technologically very far behind" other parts of the world. 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