Grieving families and colleagues have attended a collective funeral for the six miners who died on Monday in Spain’s worst mining accident for 18 years.<br /><br />The six, all said to have been aged between 35 and 45 years, died from asphyxiation as the result of a methane gas leak. Five workmates survived.<br /><br />Hundreds turned out for the funeral. Expressions of sympathy have been sent to the north west region from all over the country. <br /><br />Some 400 miners work at the Emilio del Valle mine. The victims were about 640 metres below ground when it is thought they may have accidentally breached a pocket of lethal methane gas that had accumulated in one area. Survivors said the men collapsed before having time to put on breathing apparatus.
