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Veteran miner slashes wrists to keep Italy's last coal pit open

Marc Howe | August 29, 2012 | 11:59 pm Energy Europe Coal 

49-year old Sardinian miner Stefano Meletti slashed his wrists in front of television cameras on Wednesday to protest the planned closure of Italy's last coal pit. Reuters reports that Meletti was one of around a hundred miners who have locked...

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