The 1965 Kakanj mine disaster was a mining accident on 7 June 1965 at a

Kakanj coal mine The Kakanj Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the Zenica-Doboj Canton. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 440 million tonnes of lignite, one of the largest coal reserves in Europe and the world. The mine has an annual production capacity o ...

Kakanj Kakanj ( sr-cyrl, Какањ) is a town and municipality located in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, the town has a population of 11,796 inhabitants, with 38,937 inh ...

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Background

A methane gas explosion at the Orasi mine shaft of the Kakanj mine caused a cave-in, which killed 128 miners. There were no survivors.Rudnik Kakanj - Historija
This was the second large-scale mining incident in Kakanj, after the 1934 disaster that killed 127 miners. The Kakanj 1965 disaster remained the worst in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina until the

Dobrnja-Jug mine disaster The Dobrnja-Jug mine disaster was a mining accident that happened on 26 August 1990 near Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The accident occurred in the Dobrnja-jug shaft of the Mramor coal mine. The mine was operated by the ''Kreka'' company, which op ...

in 1990.

References

External links

Yugoslavia: The Kakanj Mine Disaster 1965
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