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Marcinelle, Bois du Cazier

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Location : Charleroi, Arrondissement de Charleroi, Belgium
Description : On the morning of August 8, 1956, a fire in the mine of Bois du Cazier caused 262 victimes. A wrongly placed mining wagon on the elevator cage hit an oil pipe and indirectly the electricity lines. When the elevator started moving a fire broke out in the mine trapping the miners working in the galleries of the mine. From the 274 people working on that morning only 12 survived. Among the victims there were 136 Italians, 95 Belgians, 8 Poles, 6 Greeks, 5 Germans, 2 Frenchmen, 3 Algerians, 3 Hungarians, 1 Englishman, 1 Dutchman, 1 Russian and 1 Ukrainian. The... Read More

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