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RARE PHOTOS: Fire at the arcelormittal mine in kazakhstan kills dozens - The Real Truth

The logo of ArcelorMittal, a steel giant that entered the Kazakh market after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is seen on a mine building in the industrial town of Shakhtinsk on September 9, 2023. © Ruslan Pryanikov, AFP

Kazakhstan said on Saturday that 32 people were killed in a fire in yet another deadly accident in a mine owned by ArcelorMittal, with over a dozen still missing, in the Central Asian country's worst disaster in years. 

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called the Luxembourg-listed ArcelorMittal group the "worst" company "in our history" and ordered his government to take control of the Kazakh branch of the company. 

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