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Five dead, four injured in Spanish coal mine accident
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on March 31, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on March 31, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
A coal mine accident in Asturias, Spain, resulted in five deaths and four injuries due to a machine malfunction. Emergency services responded quickly.
MADRID (Reuters) -Five miners died on Monday and four were injured in an accident in a coal mine in the northern Spanish region of Asturias, the regional emergency services said.
Two more workers were unharmed.
The emergency services said a machine malfunctioned inside the mine in Degana at 9:32 a.m. (0732 GMT) local time. Three helicopters and two ambulances were sent to the scene.
Regional leader Adrian Barbon declared two days of mourning and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez expressed his condolences to the victims' relatives on social messaging platform X.
(Reporting by Inti Landauro and Emma PinedoEditing by Andrei Khalip)
The article discusses a fatal coal mine accident in Asturias, Spain, resulting in five deaths and four injuries.
The accident was caused by a machine malfunction inside the mine.
Emergency services dispatched helicopters and ambulances, and two days of mourning were declared.
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