BISHKEK. Aug 4 (Interfax) - Three miners have died in south Kyrgyzstan as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning, the country's Emergencies Ministry told Interfax on Monday.
"Three coal miners, born 1991, 1967, and 1966, died at a private coal mine in the village of Kok-Yangak [in the Jalal-Abad region in southern Kyrgyzstan] as a result of being poisoned with carbon monoxide," the ministry said.
Early reports suggest that the miners' death was caused by a breach of safety regulations. The victims were extracting coal at the depth of 35 meters, the ministry's spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the Emergencies Ministry has no information as to whether coal mining operations at the private mine were authorized, as mining operations at Kok-Yangak coal deposits were ceased in the middle of the 1990s, the ministry said.
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