State President Nguyen Minh Triet on May 11 extended his condolences to Russian President D.Medvedev over the mine blast in the country’s Siberian region.

The blast that took place on May 8 at Raspadskaya coal mine in coal-rich Kuzbass region of Kemerovo province, 3,000 kilometres east of Moscow, killed 43 people, leaving 71 injured and 47 missing./.