Roof Fall Kills Two Miners in Tkibuli

Two miners died late on Sunday after a collapse at Mindeli coal mine in Tkibuli, where ten miners have died in four previous, separate incidents since March, 2010.

The roof of the mine collapsed at 9:25 pm on November 6, according to coal mine operator company Saknakhshiri, which is a daughter company of Georgian Industrial Group, a conglomerate affiliated to a ruling party lawmaker Davit Bezhuashvili.

A 35-year-old miner died after apparently a blasting operation went wrong in the same coal mine in September.

Nine miners died in three separate explosions in the same mine in a period between March, 2010 and January, 2011; explosions were attributed to methane gas leak.