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Belgium identifies six unknown miners from the 1956 Marcinelle disaster

Scientific and human efforts have identified six of the fourteen unknown miners.

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The Bois du Cazier fire on August 8, 1956, killed 262 people.

DNA analyses were conducted after the bodies were exhumed in 2021.

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