The widows of the five miners killed in a methane explosion Saturday at the coal mine in Uricani, southern Romania, will get jobs at the Natioanl Coal Company CNH, said Labor Minister Ioan Botis.

The minister added Government officials will have a meeting with the victims' families.

"I want to assure the families that we are by their side. I come from a family of miners, my father was a miner, it's tragic that such accidents happen but you know as well as I do that such accidents will occur as long as there is mining," Botis said.

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