Kazakh president orders 'end to co-operation' with ArcelorMittal after fatal mine fire
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Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has ordered 'end to cooperation' with global steel giant ArcelorMittal after a fire at a mine operated by the global steel giant resulted in deaths of at least 21people. The number of deaths has been confirmed by ArcelorMittal.
"The government has been ordered to end investment cooperation with ArcelorMittal," Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in a statement shortly after the fire near the town of Karaganda, an industrial region in central Kazakhstan.
The regional authorities said earlier in a statement,"of the 252 miners present at the time of the tragedy, 205 miners were brought to the surface".
The statement was quoted by Reuters.
Regional officials later said that 40 rescuers had been sent to the site. Kazakhstan's emergency response minister Syrym Sharipkhanov has said that he will arrive at the site soon.
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire.
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President Tokayev has expressed condolences for the victims' families. He said that an investigative commission would be set up to look into the incident.
The tragedy has taken place at Kostenko mine located near the town of Karanganda which is an industrial region in central Kazakhstan.
About a dozen mines are operated by ArcelorMittal in Kazakhstan, a resource-rich country which was formerly part of the Soviet Union. It is the largest economy in Central Asia mainly due extraction of iron, coal and even oil, gas and uranium. Accidents are common in the country due to old infrastructure, equipment and inadequate safety standards.
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This is the second fatal incident in last two months at a site operated by ArcelorMittal. In August, five miners were killed in another Kazakh mine operated by the firm.
President Tokayev has previously threatened to ban ArcelorMittal from operating in Kazakhstan.
ArcelorMittal is the second-largest steel producer in the world. The company was formed when the previous entity Arcelor was taken over by Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal's Mittal Steel in the year 2006.