Six people died in a new explosion in a mine in northern Russia where 26 miners went missing following an accident three days ago, officials said Sunday.
"Six people died, five of them rescuers," Anton Kovalishin, a spokesman for the emergencies ministry in the Komi region where the Severnaya mine is located, told AFP.
Separately, Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said that the 26 missing miners were most likely also dead.