Seven miners suffered, one of them - in grave condition as a result of an explosion at the Pokrovskaya mine in the town of Udachnoye. This was reported on Facebook by the head of the Donetsk military-civil administration Pavel Zhebrivsky.

The explosion occurred about 23 hours on the 2nd southern lava of Block 7 at a horizon of 470 meters.

At that time, there were 406 miners in the mine, 37 in the emergency area.

"As rescuers tell me, at 00:40 all the miners from the emergency area were lifted to the surface. Six of the victims were hospitalized in the Kramatorsk burn center, one in the Mirnogorsk hospital, "Zhebrivsky said..

The work of the mine is suspended only in the emergency area, while others are operating in normal mode.