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Italian helicopters rescue Albanian miners injured by fire

Brindisi, Italy - Transferred to Brindisi's hospital

Two helicopters of the Italian Air Force left yesterday in the early afternoon from Brindisi towards Valona to transfer seven miners who got badly burned in an explosion occurred yesterday morning in a bitumen mine in Selenica, near Valona, to Brindisi's hospital. Six miners died in the accident, 11 were injured, some of them very seriously. Albanian Health Minister, Leonard Solis, had requested the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 58910
Rome, Italy, 02/24/2004 12:03
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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