A young girl, Olya Ostapchuk, mourns over a coffin of her father killed in a methane gas explosion at the Barakova mine in Krasnodon, 850 kilometers (530 miles) east of Ukrainian capital Kiev, on the mine's cemetry on Tuesday, March 14, 2000. Eighty one miners were killed and seven others injured after a methane gas explosion Barakova mine Saturday, March 11, in Ukraine's worst mine disaster in decades. At least 289 miners died in mine accidents in the country last year, while 251 -- in 1998. The toll this year has already reached 130.
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