As a result of an explosion in a coal mine in Szczygłowice, located in southern Poland, one miner died while being treated at a local burn care center in Siemianowice Śląskie.

Hospital authorities in southern Poland say a coal miner who suffered burns from a colliery methane gas fire has died

Doctors said Wednesday that 16 coal miners have suffered burns and injuries from a methane gas fire at a coal mine in southern Poland. Lukasz Pach, head of the regional ambulance service in Katowice,

Workers are being evacuated from a mine in southern Poland after methane ignited, operator JSW said on Wednesday. "An operation to evacuate workers from the area is underway," JSW said in a statement regarding events at the Knurow-Szczyglowice Ruch Szczyglowice coal mine.