Fire at Russia's Mezhegey coking coal mine injures 11

Eleven people were injured, four of them seriously, when fire broke out in an administrative and amenity building at Mezhegeyugol, the company that works the Mezhegey coking coal deposit in Russia's Tuva republic, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said on November 2.

The ministry, which also runs Russia's fire and rescue service, said the blaze hit a single-storey building of 250 square metres in Tandinsky district in central Tuva, 4.7 kilometres from the village of Kochetovo, and that the fire service was called at 2:09 am local time. The building held