A miner has miraculously been pulled alive from a 'death trap' Russian mine where 52 people were killed in an underground explosion.
The man who had been presumed dead was hauled from the wreckage and rushed to a local hospital, according to emergencies minister Alexander Chupriyan.
A total of 46 miners and six rescuers were killed after a gas leak caused a devastating explosion 820ft underground in the Siberian pit on Thursday, in one of the worst disasters to strike the country's coal mining heartland since Soviet times.
Some 63 people sustained injuries, with 50 of them hospitalised, and four in intensive care.
Distraught widows told local media that their husbands were ordered to work despite significant methane leaks and that everyone knew it was dangerous.
Police arrested two state safety inspectors on Friday who investigators say gave the mine a safety certificate in November without ever checking the facility.
Distraught relatives are seen at the Listvyazhnaya coal mine in the town of Belovo in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin in Kemerovo Region, southwestern Siberia on Friday morning
A woman sobs near the entrance to the Listvyazhnaya coal mine, near the town of Belovo in the Kemerovo region, on Friday
Shattered relatives of the miners outside the entrance to the facility this morning
Kemerovo Region Governor Sergei Tsivilev (R) and Russia's Acting Emergencies Minister Alexander Chupriyan are seen by the Listvyazhnaya Mine in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin, Kemerovo Region, southwestern Siberia, where an accident has occurred
The victims relatives are seen at the Listvyazhnaya coal mine in the town of Belovo
Three other people, including the director of the Listvyazhnaya mine and his deputy, were arrested late on Thursday.
Some of the dead were torn to pieces in the appalling
