Fears rise for 15 trapped Polish coal miners
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Polish officials said on Wednesday they feared the worst as rescuers battled to reach 15 miners trapped with little or no air in a deep coal mine after an explosion killed at least eight others.
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An explosion at a coal mine in south China killed at least 15 workers, state media said Thursday, the latest disaster to strike the country's notoriously dangerous mining industry.
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BEIJING -- Nearly 150 miners were feared killed by a gas explosion in a coal shaft in central China, the highest recent toll in a series of underground tragedies in the country's hard-pressed energy industry, the government said yesterday.
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The bodies of all 17 men trapped underground after a mine explosion in southern Poland have been found, bringing the death toll to 23 in the country's worst mining disaster in three decades, the mining company ...Comment
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Eight coal miners were killed after a suspected gas explosion in a mine in southern Poland on Tuesday, and fears were growing as rescuers tried to reach 15 others trapped more than 3,000 underground.Comment
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Hopes of saving 15 miners trapped for more than 24 hours in a Polish coal mine faded on Wednesday after life-threatening conditions forced rescue crews to suspend work.
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At least 25 miners have been killed and some 140 are trapped after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China. The official Xinhua newsagency says of the 293 miners working underground when the blast
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Rescuers were hoping Monday for any  chance to enter a colliery and search for 141 Chinese workers  trapped with scant hope of survival after a gas explosion in a  coal mine that has killed at least 25 -- the third such  accident in days.
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A coal mine explosion has killed at  least 15 miners in northern China, the latest in a string of  accidents in the country's notoriously dangerous mining  industry, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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Carbon monoxide prevents rescuers from reaching 141 men trapped following a deadly mine blast in central China.
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A gas explosion blasted through a coal mine in central China today, leaving more than 160 miners missing in what may be the country&#39;s worst coal-mine accident in recent years.
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Polish rescuers found 13  more bodies overnight from Tuesday's coal mine disaster, taking  the death toll so far to 21, officials said on Thursday.
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A wall of thick smoke blocked rescuers on Monday from 141 Chinese miners trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China that killed at least 25, and officials saw scant hope of finding more survivors.
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Two miners trapped for five days by a cave-in at a Beijing colliery dig their way to safety, Chinese media reports.
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Rescuers recovered the bodies of 15 more workers killed in a Polish mine explosion early Thursday, bringing the death toll to 21 and leaving little hope that the remaining two missing men would be found, a mining company spokesman said.
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At least eight miners have been killed and 15 trapped after a gas blast at a coal in south Poland, officials say.
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Eight coal miners were killed after a suspected gas explosion in a mine in southern Poland on Tuesday, and fears were growing as rescuers tried to reach 15 others trapped more than 3,000 feet underground.Comment