"90 feared dead after Siberian mine blast" - no mention of "men"
Story here. The "forbidden word" is of course not even mentioned in the article. Was there even one female miner in the blast? Excerpt:
'Rescuers were searching desperately for 58 people still missing in a Russian coal mine yesterday as the death toll from twin methane blasts rose to 32.
Hopes were fading of finding survivors more than 450 metres underground at the Raspadskaya pit in Siberia, Russia’s largest underground mine. Eighteen of the victims have been rescuers who died in the second explosion on Sunday after going in search of miners trapped by the first blast late on Saturday.
Twelve miners died and 71 were hurt in that explosion as 370 people worked underground at the mine in the Kemerovo region. Sergei Shoigu, the Emergency Situations Minister, said that the body of the 31st victim, a rescue worker, had been recovered as a large-scale search mission resumed.
He said that 30 teams of rescuers were searching “in all directions” in the mine after power and ventilation supplies were restored following the second explosion. But he cautioned that high methane levels and rising floodwater in the mine’s deepest shafts were hampering their work, adding that the rescue mission had 48 hours at most to find anyone alive.'
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