Ukraine mourns miners killed in Zasyadko gas blast

The Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko has declared a day of national mourning as the death toll from a gas blast in a coal mine reached 32, with one man still missing.

Mr Poroshenko decreed a minute's silence to be observed at midday for the miners killed at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk region.

The mine is in rebel territory and a demand by Mr Poroshenko to let in government rescuers was rejected.

Zasyadko was the scene of Ukraine's worst mine disaster nearly eight years ago, when 101 people were killed.

BBC