Hope fades as rescuers battle to save trapped miners in Poland
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Hopes of finding 15 Polish coal miners alive appeared to fade, a day after they were trapped deep underground by one of Europe's deadliest mining accidents for years.
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Rescue teams struggled to locate  and remove the charred bodies of 54 Indian miners killed after  the roof of a state-owned coal mine collapsed following an  explosion, authorities said on Friday.
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A senior work safety official saidhere Thursday morning that there is slim hope for the 148 trapped coal miners in central China&#39;s coal mine blast to be rescued alive.
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Despite three weeks of drilling and digging that have revealed no signs of life from six men trapped inside a collapsed coal mine, officials said Sunday the search was continuing.
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Rescuers said 141 miners remained trapped in a coal mine filled with toxic gas in China&#39;s Shaanxi province Monday after an explosion the day before killed 25.
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Crews searching for any sign of six miners trapped for more than three weeks are "hoping a miracle could happen," a federal official told lawmakers Wednesday, while another hole was drilled to insert a robotic camera into the mountain.
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The chances of rescuing at least 141 miners trapped inside a coal mine in China after a fierce gas explosion ripped through the underground facility Sunday are bleak, say authorities.
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Rescuers faced thick smoke and   blistering temperatures on Thursday as they tried to reach more   than 30 miners trapped underground by a fire at a Siberian gold   mine.
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Rescuers fail to find six US men missing in a mine collapse after a sixth rescue attempt, mine officials say.
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Although rescuers are hoping to be able to enter the mine today, officials believe there is very little hope of finding survivors.
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A GAS explosion killed at least one miner and trapped 23 others underground in a deep coal mine in southern Poland today, police said.Comment
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Rescuers were hoping on Monday for any chance to search for 141 Chinese workers trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine that has killed at least 25 -- the third such accident in days.
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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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BEIJING - Chinese authorities say 141 miners trapped in an underground gas explosion Sunday have no chance of survival, bringing the toll from the disaster to 166 and making it the country&#39;s worst mining disaster in four years.
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More than 40 miners who were trapped underground Wednesday by a fire in an Australian gold mine have been rescued, local media reported.
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Russian rescuers brought five miners to  the surface alive on Saturday and three others climbed out on  their own after more than two days trapped in a burning gold  mine, but hopes faded for nine others still missing.
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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of all 12 miners missing after a blast at a coal mine in central China, with no word on the fate of 181 miners trapped underground in the east for more than two weeks.