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MOSCOW – Russian diamond producer Alrosa said on Saturday it had called off the search for eight miners who went missing three weeks ago when an underground mine flooded.

The state-run company’s Mir mine in the remote Yakutia region of eastern Siberia flooded on Aug. 4 when water seeped in from an open-cast mine above it. Another 134 miners were brought to the surface safely.

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