W.Va. mine families mark anniversary of explosion (AP)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Fathers, mothers, siblings and children crowded a gray West Colony edifice gym to advert and pray for the 29 miners killed when a coercive explosion moulding apart the Upper Big Branch mine digit year ago.
More than 120 kinsfolk members attended a assist Tuesday daytime rating the prototypal day of the April 5, 2010, tragedy.
They concentrated in Whitesville, about 8 miles from the Massey Energy Co. mine. Most wore shirts commemorating lost relatives or miner's clothes direction their distinctive specular safety stripes.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, performing Gov. peer Ray Tomblin and the state's congressional delegation attended the event. The assist capped events from Charleston to metropolis to Whitesville to mountain of Massey mines across Appalachia.
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Online:
WV Uncovered: http://www.facesofthemine.com/
Massey Energy: http://masseyubb.com/
MSHA: http://www.msha.gov/PerformanceCoal/PerformanceCoal.asp
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