Four miners were killed, one was missing and 13 others were injured after an explosion ripped through part of a mine in Siberia on Saturday, Russian officials said, quoted by Interfax news agency.
"At the moment of the blast 57 men were in the mine and 52 of them have returned to the surface," said an official at Russia's emergency situations ministry. Thirteen people were in hospital receiving treatment for burns.
The blast, thought to have been sparked by methane gas, ripped through the Sibirskaya mine in the Kemerovo region early Saturday morning some 170 meters (560 feet) below ground.
"At 11:15 pm (1615 GMT) they found the body of another miner (the fourth)", a Kemerovo official of the ministry for emergency situations said.
"Four miners died in the methane gas blast in the mine and we're looking for a fifth," the official added.
The official said that two injured miners were in very serious condition with more than 60 percent of their body burnt.
"According to a preliminary investigation the gas explosion was caused by an electric fault," a Kemerovo official told Interfax.
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