ASTANA, June 8 (RIA Novosti) - Rescuers recovered the bodies of all five miners who died after a cave-in and methane leak at a coal mine in central Kazakhstan on June 2, the country's Emergency Situations Ministry said Sunday.
The Tentekskaya mine, located in the Karaganda Region, is owned by the world's largest steel company, ArcelorMittal.
The search operation, which began immediately after the blast, was hampered by over 1,000 tons of rubble brought down by the cave-in. A total of 95 people were evacuated from the mine after the accident.
A methane gas blast at ArcelorMittal's Abai coal mine in Kazakhstan killed 31 workers in January.
