{"id":26396,"date":"2018-12-21T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26396"},"modified":"2018-12-21T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T10:24:30","slug":"czech-coal-mine-blast-toll-rises-to-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26396","title":{"rendered":"Czech coal mine blast toll rises to 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"83.8401559454\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A methane explosion in a Czech coal<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0mine has\u00a0<\/span>killed 13<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0mine<\/span>rs, including 11 Polish nationals and two Czechs, the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0mine\u00a0<\/span>operator OKD said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The state-run OKD company said a methane blast more than 800 metres (875 yards) underground devastated areas of the CSM hard-coal mine, near the town of Karvina, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Due to yesterday&#8217;s mine disaster, 13 miners lost their lives &#8211; 11 Poles and two Czechs,&#8221; OKD spokesman Ivo Celechovsky said at a televised news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is the worst mining accident in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/czech-republic.html\">Czech Republic<\/a> since 1990, when 30 miners died in a fire at a mine near Karvina, according to a list compiled by the CTK news agency.<\/p>\n<p>OKD said most of the victims and injured were Polish miners provided by the ALPEX company.<\/p>\n<p>OKD managing director Boleslav Kowalczyk said the search of the scene had had to be abandoned due to conditions in the shaft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, we have reached a point where it was impossible to move forward because there was a fire raging and zero visibility,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A methane explosion in a Czech coal\u00a0mine has\u00a0killed 13\u00a0miners, including 11 Polish nationals and two Czechs, the\u00a0mine\u00a0operator OKD said on Friday. The state-run OKD company said a methane blast more than 800 metres (875 yards) underground devastated areas of the CSM hard-coal mine, near the town of Karvina, on Thursday. &#8220;Due to yesterday&#8217;s mine disaster,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}