China blast traps miners in toxic shafts
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A gas explosion that tore through a coal mine in central China trapped 166 workers in underground shafts filled with noxious smoke in the latest and apparently the deadliest of a
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POISONOUS fumes were preventing rescuers from reaching 141 miners trapped underground at a coalmine in northern China yesterday after an explosion that killed 25 of their colleagues.
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There are reports at least two dozen coal miners are dead and more than 140 are still trapped in a mine in central China. Nearly 300 workers were in the mine when a massive gas explosion tore through the shaft.
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A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in China's northeastern rust-belt province of Liaoning, killing at least 203 workers in the worst disaster in 15 years to hit the world's most dangerous mining industry.
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Beijing: At least 170 miners were trapped underground after a gas explosion on Sunday ignited a fire in a coalmine in north-west China&#39;s Shaanxi province, reports said.
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Beijing - A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in north China&#39;s Shaanxi province on Sunday, trapping 166 miners in what threatens to be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s biggest coal producer in recent years.
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BEIJING  - A gas explosion in a coal mine in central China killed 56 people and left scores trapped and missing, the government said Thursday.
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A gas explosion in a coal mine in central China late Wednesday has killed 56 workers, and the fate of more than 90 others trapped inside the mine is unknown, Chinese authorities say.
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A GAS explosion in a coal mine killed at least 56 miners and left at least 92 missing in Chinaâs worst mining accident this year.
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A gas explosion has torn through a coal mine in northern China, trapping as many as 166 miners in what could be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s most dangerous mining industry in four years.
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A gas explosion in a coal mine in  China's northeastern rust-belt province of Liaoning killed at  least 203 workers in the worst recorded disaster in 63 years to  hit the world's most dangerous mining industry.
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A coal mine blast killed at least 33  miners in central China, the government said on Friday, in the  latest in a grim cycle of accidents in the world's biggest and  most dangerous mining industry.
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SHANGHAI -- A gas explosion in a coal mine in China's northeast killed at least 203 miners, the government said today, in the deadliest such disaster reported since Communist rule began in 1949.
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An explosion in an illegal Chinese coal mine has killed eight miners and left an undetermined number missing, even as rescuers continued draining another flooded mine where at least 57 men are trapped and feared dead, officials and state-run media said Wednesday.
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A gas explosion Sunday at a state-owned coal mine in northwest China has trapped 187 Chinese coal miners, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
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About 50 mine workers were confirmed dead and more than 100 still missing, the government said Tuesday, as toxic fumes unleashed from an explosion at a coal mine in central China slowed rescuers from entering the pit.
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A gas explosion in a state-owned mine in China has left 166 miners trapped underground with no means of contact. Nearly 300 miners were in Chenjiashan mine in Shaanxi province when the blast happened on Sunday morning, but 127 escaped, said state media.