Emotions are running high among mourners in east Ukraine after laying to rest some of 33 miners killed in an apparent gas blast.
Some directly blame management at the notoriously dangerous coal mine in rebel-led Donetsk for cutting corners on safety measures.
The victims are being buried side-by-side in the heart of Ukraine's coal belt.
"Everybody knows there is a lot of gas at Zasyadko and that ventilation is not the best," said retired miner Vasily on Friday.
"It only takes a spark," he added as weeping relatives surrounded the red velvet-lined open coffin of 30-year-old Dmitry Aleksandrov.
The young man's face is scarred by the blast that took his life and that of 32 fellow miners.
Another miner who has worked for 27 years at nearby Oktyabrskaya coal mine said he had initially preferred Zasyadko "because it pays better".
But he reconsidered after it suffered a fire.
Eight miners were buried in a cemetery a few metres from the mine entrance - in a plot which also holds the remains of the victims of back-to-back methane explosions that killed 153 miners in 2007.
The mine's manager read a short speech for each miner - eulogising each as "a loyal and devoted friend" - as relatives said their final farewells.
But miners in the crowd were scathing of the corporate tribute, complaining of harsh working conditions and what they saw as the bosses' general disregard for safety.
"I accuse the mine management of being responsible for this tragedy," said Vladislav Aleksandrov, Dmitry's brother.
The miners were killed when a blast ripped through the shaft early Wednesday.
Despite both sides backing a February ceasefire deal rebel authorities in Donetsk refused help from Ukrainian authorities in dealing with the mine emergency.
Officials from the self-proclaimed rebel Donetsk People's Republic claimed they had asked the owners of the mine - which lies a few kilometres from the frontline - to close the facility a month earlier because of deteriorating working conditions.
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