Francis Plourde

[Editor's note: Tyee reporter Francis Plourde will be reporting this week from Kimberley, B.C., where an inquest into four deaths at the nearby Sullivan Mine gets underway today.]

Family and co-workers of four people who died in an underground shed at the decommissioned Sullivan Mine site hope to finally get some answers this week as an inquest into the deaths begins in Kimberley, B.C.

Bob Newcombe, Kim Weitzel and Shawn Currier all died trying to rescue environmental contractor Doug Erickson from a water sampling shed at the mine in May 2006. A mine inspector's report released last October found the accident to be "unprecedented" and largely unpreventable. But the report did not satisfy many close to the victims.

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