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The bodies of sixteen coal miners who died as a result of a methane explosion at Zasiadko mine in Donetsk have been already found, Chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine Mykhailo Volynets said.

He also has said that mine-rescuers have already extinguished fire and carbonic acid doesn’t produce any more.