Nearly 30,000 people were left without power while coal miners were evacuated to the surface following a power station accident in Siberias Kemerovo area on Friday.The regional electricity service provider Rosseti Sibir said teams were working to restore power in the Leninsk-Kuznetsky district while investigating the cause of the outage.At least seven coal mines experienced ventilation failures, and 2 towns were left without electricity, the local Emergency Situations Ministry told the Interfax news agency.The blackout impacted a minimum of 28,000 individuals, including citizens of the town of Polysayevo.
One health center, 5 schools and 11 kindergartens were likewise impacted, state-run TASS news company reported.More than 500 miners were safely evacuated from three mines through emergency exits, the areas acting emergency situation minister told Kemerovo region Governor Ilya Seredyuk in a video posted on Telegram.Rosseti Sibir later said power had actually been restored to the coal mines and five of the districts towns.