Russian Mine Blast

The nurse, 23-year-old Oksana, was walking alongside her partner Viktor on March 27 when she stepped on a Russian mine and lost both of her legs.

Two Ukrainian civilians were killed and 11 servicemen injured today in mine blasts in separatist eastern Ukraine, which remains littered with explosive devices left behind by its 18-month revolt, officials said.

At least 16 miners were killed Monday when a methane explosion tore through a coal mine in the remote Russian Far North within the Arctic Circle, in the latest disaster to hit the country's mining industry.

The bodies of nine miners have been found by rescue workers after a blast tore through a mine in the Komi region in Russia's Far North on Monday, an emergencies ministry spokeswoman said.

60 killed in Russian mine blast , Rescuers struggling through the blast-shattered corridors of a Siberian coal mine where any of 30 missing miners could still be found alive.

The nurse, 23-year-old Oksana, was walking alongside her partner Viktor on March 27 when she stepped on a Russian mine and lost both of her legs.

Two Ukrainian civilians were killed and 11 servicemen injured today in mine blasts in separatist eastern Ukraine, which remains littered with explosive devices left behind by its 18-month revolt, officials said.

At least 16 miners were killed Monday when a methane explosion tore through a coal mine in the remote Russian Far North within the Arctic Circle, in the latest disaster to hit the country's mining industry.

The bodies of nine miners have been found by rescue workers after a blast tore through a mine in the Komi region in Russia's Far North on Monday, an emergencies ministry spokeswoman said.

60 killed in Russian mine blast , Rescuers struggling through the blast-shattered corridors of a Siberian coal mine where any of 30 missing miners could still be found alive.