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Emergencies Ministry members and workers walk at the site of an underground explosion at the Raspadskaya mine in the Kemerovo region in Russia's coal-rich Kuzbass region May 10, 2010.
Tuesday, May. 11, 2010

Open quoteIn such a moment, you are no longer alive. There is no more air, only dust.Close quote

  • VLADIMIR GOLOSHAPOV,
  • survivor of a double explosion in a Siberian coal shaft that has killed at least 43 people, nearly half of whom were rescuers trying to reach trapped comrades
Photo: Georgiy Kopitin / Reuters | Source: NYT