#asturias

#asturias

As news of the blast spread, workers' families flocked to the site, which was surrounded by police and emergency services vehicles. It's scandalous. Companies used to guarantee safety, but they are doing it less and less, Jose Antonio Alvarez, a relative of one the miners who died, told regional newspaper El Comercio.

At least five people have been killed and three seriously injured in an explosion at a coal mine in Spain's Asturias region.