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Kazakhstan mourns for 45 dead in ArcelorMittal mine disaster

Rescuers earlier warned that chances of finding the remaining miners alive were "very low", due to the lack of ventilation and the force of Saturday's explosion, which spread over two kilometres (1.2 miles).

A view of the Kazakhstan mine of ArcelorMittal, a Western steel giant which entered the Kazakh market after the Soviet collapse, in the industrial town of Shakhtinsk on September 8, 2023. /AFP
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

Kazakhstan held nationwide mourning on Sunday after 45 people died in a blaze at an ArcelorMittal mine, the worst accident in the Central Asian country's post-Soviet history.

The tragedy,

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