2023-10-31 05:56:46
– 46 miners found dead following mining accident in Kazakhstan
A final body was found following an explosion last weekend in an ArcelorMittal group mine in Kazakhstan. The final toll was 46 victims.
Posted today at 6:56 a.m.
Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, around 200 miners have lost their lives in Kazakhstan, the vast majority on ArcelorMittal sites.
AFP
The explosion in a mine of the ArcelorMittal group in Kazakhstan cost the lives of 46 miners, authorities announced on Tuesday following the discovery of a last body, the worst industrial accident in this Central Asian country since its independence from China. Soviet Union.
“The bodies of 45 miners and the remains of the probable 46th victim have been found,” Kazakh Minister of Emergency Situations Syrym Sharipkhanov said during a meeting with the government. After the tragedy, which took place during the night from Friday to Saturday at the Kostenko mine in the city of Karaganda (center), the government and ArcelorMittal announced that they had reached an agreement to nationalize the Kazakh subsidiary of the global steel giant .
The group established in Luxembourg and led by Indian businessman Lakshmi Mittal was regularly criticized by the Kazakhstan authorities, who pointed out the failure to respect safety and environmental standards, with repeated accidents.
“Security Violations”
“The company has not fulfilled its obligations. We are finalizing the agreement on the transfer of ArcelorMittal Temirtau (name of the subsidiary, editor’s note) in favor of Kazakhstan,” Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov said on Tuesday, without further details on the operation. At the time of the explosion, the blast of which spread over two kilometers, 252 miners were underground and 206 were able to come to the surface.
“This tragedy is directly linked to industrial safety violations. The fault lies above all with the management of the company,” criticized the Kazakh prime minister, while the unions are calling for stricter control from the government.
Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, around 200 miners have lost their lives in Kazakhstan, the vast majority on sites owned by ArcelorMittal, which arrived in 1995 and operated around fifteen factories and mines in the center of this region. former Soviet republic rich in natural resources.
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