Two miners were missing on Thursday after a fire broke out in a coal mine in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard off northern Norway, the region's governor said.
Twenty-nine of the 31 miners who were in the pit when the fire broke out at the Barentsburg mine at around 5am (1300 AEST) were evacuated and unharmed, the governor's office said in a statement.
The cause of the fire was not known, it added.
The statement said that the fire was under control but still not completely put out.
The mine is owned and operated by Russian mining company Trust Arctikugol in Barentsburg, a Russian town of about 500 people on Svalbard, a group of islands under Norwegian sovereignty in the Barents Sea.