Landmine casualties up despite record clearing
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A record area was cleared of landmines   worldwide last year, but casualties caused by the weapons rose   by 11 percent to 7,328, with almost all the victims civilians,   many of them children, a report said on Wednesday.
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The death toll from last week&#39;s coal mine explosion in central China has risen to 122, with 26 people still missing, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
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The final death toll from a coal mine explosion in central China is likely to rise from 56 to 148, as those still trapped have little chance of survival, an official in charge of work safety says.
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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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The death toll from a methane blast at a  Siberian coal mine on Thursday has risen to 35 with three  people still missing, a spokeswoman for Russia&#39;s Emergencies  Ministry said.
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The death toll from a devastating coal mine gas explosion in central China&#39;s Henan province has risen to 77. Efforts are continuing to recover 71 others still listed as officially missing, although officials
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Beijing - The number of fatalities in an underground fire in an iron ore mine rose to 48, officials with the government&#39;s worker protection administration said.
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The death toll from an explosion at a coal mine in central China has risen to 33 with six injured, as authorities announced plans for an inspection drive in a bid to improve shockingly low safety standards in the nation's mines.
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THE death toll in a Chinese coal mine blast rose to 64 yesterday, with 84 people still missing. The explosion, on Wednesday in Henan province, was the deadliest this year in the country&#39;s mines.
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BEIJING : A gas explosion in a coal mine in China has killed at least 56 miners and left nearly 100 others missing. The death toll is expected to rise further
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Rescue teams scrambling to reach 84  trapped miners after one of China's worst mine disasters in  years pulled two more bodies from the rubble on Friday, leaving  the toll from the blast at 64, state media said.
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The 1997 ban on landmines has succeeded beyond hopes, but states must follow through with their obligations to clear landmines and assist victims, campaigners said on the treaty's 10th anniversary on Tuesday.
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The methane gas explosion that led to the deaths of 12 men inside the Sago Mine last January was nearly five times more powerful than the mine's underground seals were able to withstand, a state report to be released Monday says.
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The death toll from last week's coal  mine explosion in central China has risen to 122, with 26  people still missing, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
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DELEGATES from more than 140 countries gathered yesterday seeking to eliminate and ban landmines that kill or maim up to 20,000 people a year worldwide.
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Despite this appalling carnage, there has been considerable success in international efforts to rid the world of anti-personnel mines.
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More people than ever are being killed and injured on all-terrain vehicles as the number of riders increases, according to government statistics.