Viktor Yushchenko

Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko, 2nd left, leans towards a coffin paying his last respects to one of the miners who was killed in a methane explosion at the Barakova mine in the eastern Ukrainian town of Krasnodon, 850 kilometers (530 miles) east of Kiev, on Monday, March 13, 2000. Eighty one miners were killed and seven other injured after a methane explosion at the Barakova mine on Saturday March 11, in Ukraine's worst mine accident in decades. Ukraine's coal industry is consideredas the world's most dangerous and has the highest death rate. The Ukraine's government has already sent dlrs 1.8 million to help families of those killed in the mine. UNIAN Photo