Text of report by privately-owned Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency Astana, 23 July: As a result of a gas leak from a gas pipeline in the Abay settlement of South Kazakhstan Region, centralized gas supply has been cut off to a number of houses, Kazakhstan's Emergencies Ministry announced on Wednesday [23 July].

Excerpt from report by privately-owned Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency Karaganda, 3 June: Kazakh Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Bozhko believes that five miners, who remain in a coalface of the Tentek mine in (central) Karaganda Region, have no chances to survive.

Excerpt from report by Kazakhstan Today news agency website Karaganda, 29 January: The explosion at the Abay [coal] mine has occurred due to the fault of the ArcelorMittal Temirtau joint-stock company's coal department, the Kazakh minister of emergency situations, Vladimir Bozhko, has said.

Excerpt from report by Kazakhstan Today news agenc

Text of report by Kazakhstan Today news agency website Abay, 15 January: Families of the miners who died at the Abay [coal] mine will receive funds to purchase flats, said the [Kazakh] Minister of Emergency Situations, Vladimir Bozhko, in his interview to the agency's correspondent.