Explosion in Kleofas coal mine leaves one dead despite safety measures

One week after a tragedy in the Bielszowice coal mine in which 17 miners wer e seriously injured a tragedy has struck Katowice mine Kleofas, where a mine r lost his life when a 80 meter long part of a mine vein 570 meters below gr ound level collapsed burying three miners. They were dug out almost immediat ely, however only two of them survived. During the preceding night there wer e controlled explosions in the area exactly to avoid such an accident. The c rump, 5 on the Richter's scale was one of the biggest that usually happen in coal mines. In related news a Polish miner died in an accident in the Czech Republic. The death toll among miners this year has now reached four. (www.r mf.pl) J.K.