EIGHT DIE IN MINE EXPLOSION
| (N.ZP.A.Reuter—Copyright) LENS (France), Dec. 27. At least eight miners died today in a gas explosion at a coalmine near Lens, officials said. Several other miners were hurt, and six were severely burned. A mine official said the explosion occurred at the bottom of the 700-metre main shaft just after the 78 men on the morning shift arrived for work.
Rescuers arrived soon after the blast and began removing dead and injured.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33728, 28 December 1974, Page 1
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