Rescuers race to free 15 trapped Polish miners
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Emergency crews worked  through the early hours of Wednesday to try and rescue 15  miners trapped with little or no air in a deep coal mine in  Poland after an explosion killed at least eight other men.
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XINMI, China -- Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards yesterday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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Toxic gas hampered the search for 141 trapped coal miners Monday following an explosion in central China, and an official said their chances of survival were ``extremely slight.
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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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More than 40 miners were trapped in a coal  mine in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday when a mixture of coal  powder and methane exploded, a spokesman for the emergencies  ministry said.
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Hopes of finding any survivors from one of Europe's deadliest mining accidents have ended, as rescue workers recovered the final body of 23 victims of a gas blast at a pit in southern Poland.
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Polish rescue workers have battled to reach 15 coalminers trapped 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) underground at a mine in the south of the country after a gas explosion killed at least eight others.
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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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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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Chenjiashan Mine - Hopes of finding alive 141 workers trapped inside a north China coal pit vanished Monday as officials and angry relatives blamed the disaster on management&#39;s drive for profit.
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A Polish court convicts 15 ex-militia officers of killing nine miners during a communist clampdown in 1981.
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Rescuers on Sunday found the bodies of   the last four miners trapped deep underground at a remote   Russian gold mine, bringing the final death toll to 25.
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A fire broke out at a coal mine in Siberia on Thursday, trapping at least 19 miners, a Russian emergency official said.
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A fire at a coal mine in northern China has trapped 15 workers and has been burning since Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland - Hopes of saving 15 miners trapped deep underground in a Polish coal mine faded on Wednesday as rising gas levels and flooding forced a temporary break in rescue ...Comment
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Crews searching for 57 coal miners trapped for five days by an underground flood began pumping water from their mine Tuesday, as residents began to lose hope for a successful rescue.
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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.