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/ 20 March 2007

Tears as Siberian mine families recover dead

Grief-stricken relatives collapsed in tears on Tuesday as ambulances delivered their grim load of black plastic body bags to a morgue in Novokuznetsk, a remote Siberian mining town and scene of Russia’s deadliest mine accident. Four military-style camouflage tents were set up under a leaden sky outside the crumbling morgue.