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Seventy years after the Marcinelle accident that killed 262 minors, Belgium is still trying to identify the last bodies

The Bois du Cazier fire on 8 August 1956 was the country's worst mining disaster. In 2021, a massive scientific and humanitarian effort was launched, and the fourteen "unknowns" were exhumed for DNA analysis, and six of them have now been identified.

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Seventy years after the Marcinelle accident that killed 262 minors, Belgium is still trying to identify the last bodies

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