Day of mourning for miners: 2017

Lviv region, 2017. A day of mourning has been declared in Ukraine for the miners of the Stepova mine killed in the Lviv region.

In the video: territory of the Stepova mine, ambulance car, sign, injured miners, people in the ward, doctors, night, ambulance car near the hospital, Ukrainian flag with a mourning ribbon on the territory of the mine, minute of silence in the Chervonohrad City Council, mine, miners walking.

Interview: Yaroslav Panchyshyn, deputy chief physician of Chervonohrad City Hospital; Vasyl Savchyn, head of the burn unit of the 8th Clinical Hospital in Lviv; Andriy Oliynyk, injured miner; Andriy Zalivskyi, mayor of Chervonohrad.

For reference: The explosion at the Stepova mine in the village of Hlukhiv, Lviv Oblast, is one of the largest coal mining accidents in western Ukraine. The explosion occurred on March 2, 2017, at 12:46 a.m. at the 550-meter horizon, in the 119th conveyor drift. At the time, 172 miners were working at the mine, including 34 miners in the accident area.

The methane explosion killed 8 miners and hospitalized 23.