A cave-in killed three miners and injured six other men who were tunneling through a coal mine Thursday evening trying to reach six miners trapped for 11 days, mining officials said."There was a major mountain bump," said Tammy Kikuchi, spokeswoman for the Utah Division of Natural Resources.
The rescue workers were blasted by a bump, an explosive shift in coal and rock underground, which seismologists suspect is the same thing that trapped the six miners on Aug. 6, said Amy Louviere, spokeswoman for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA).
Kikuchi said the workers who died in the accident were miners and that two of the injured workmen were MSHA employees. All of the workers had been ordered out of mine, she said, leaving in doubt whether the rescue effort for the missing men would resume.
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