7:30 AM - 25 Dead in W.Va. Mine Blast, 4 Missing, 2 Injured; Rescue Efforts Suspended
12:30 AM - West Virginia is suffering another mine disaster, with 12 miners killed and 14 unaccounted, following an explosion in a Raleigh County mine.
It is shades of the Sago disaster.
The explosion is at Massey's Upper Big Branch Mine-South near Naoma.
Officials fear the death toll will be high.
Mine safety experts have been told the explosion is believed to have involved methane inside a sealed area of the mine or methane that leaked out of the seals.
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