60 mine workers trapped underground in China
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Rescue teams were struggling on Sunday to save more than 60 workers trapped underground after a blaze at five iron ore mines in North China&#39;s Hebei province, officials and state media reported.
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BEIJING Chinese rescuers a thousand feet underground have struggled closer today to a section of a collapsed mine shaft where they hoped to find 71 coal miners missing in a gas explosion.
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Rescue crews in China are attempting to reach at least 92 workers trapped in a coal mine following an explosion Wednesday that killed at least 60 people.
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Rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with toxic fumes Friday as the death toll in China&#39;s worst mining accident this year rose to 66, with 82 workers missing and feared dead.
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Rescuers in central China searched yesterday for 88 coal miners who were missing after a gas explosion ripped through a shaft, killing at least 60 others.
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A coal mine blast in northern China killed at least 56 people and left 92 others trapped or feared dead in the worst mine disaster this year, the government said.
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CHINA&#39;S abysmal mine safety record reached a new low yesterday with news that more than 200 workers had been killed in a gas explosion deep underground.
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Twelve Chinese miners were missing on Friday after an explosion at their pit as hopes faded for 181 miners in an eastern province trapped underground for two weeks, state media said.
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Investigators have determined that back-to-back coal-dust and gas blasts ripped through a mine in northern China killing at least 50 workers and leaving more than 110 trapped and feared dead, said reports on Tuesday.
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A GAS explosion in a coal mine in central China today trapped 187 miners underground, the government said. The accident occurred at 7.20am (10.20am AEDT) in the state-owned Chenjiashan coal mine in Shaanxi
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At least 56 workers have been killed and nearly 100 were missing feared dead after one of the worst coal mine disasters in China's recent history
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A gas explosion has torn through a coal mine in northern China, trapping at least 177 miners in what could be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s most dangerous mining industry in years.
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Rescuers on Friday found the dead bodies   of nine miners trapped underground by a fire at a gold mine in   Eastern Siberia and continued to search for more than 20   others, officials said.
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Nine Chinese miners have been killed and 57 trapped underground after fire swept through a series of iron mines in the northern province of Hebei, Xinhua news agency has reported.
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An underground gas explosion in a mine in central China has killed at least 56 workers and left almost 100 missing in one of the worst mining disasters in recent memory, officials said today.
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A gas explosion in a coal mine in central China late Wednesday has killed 56 workers, and the fate of nearly 150 others trapped inside the mine was unknown early Thursday, Chinese authorities say.
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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.