Mine rescuers face dark, death with confidence
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SYLVESTER, W., Virginia  - Mike Vaught sounds about as comfortable about coal mining as you'd hope a man tasked to rescue others from deep within the earth would be.
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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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Using picks, shovels and even their hands, hundreds of coal miners have worked around the clock for a year to recover the bodies of 65 co-workers lost in an explosion. So far, frustrated searchers have only found two.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Polish officials said on Wednesday they feared the worst as rescuers battled to reach 15 miners trapped in a deep coal mine after an explosion that killed at least eight others.
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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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JHARIA, India  - 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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The death toll from a coal mine disaster in China has risen to 64, and hopes are fading that any survivors will be found among another 84 workers who are missing.
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RUDA SLASKA -- Polish rescuers found 13 more bodies overnight from Tuesday's coal mine disaster, taking the death toll so far to 21, the television news channel TVN24 reported today . The report said the rescuers were searching for two more miners who had been trapped after an underground methane gas explosion at the mine in the town of Ruda ...
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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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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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BEIJING - At least thirty-threeminers were confirmed dead and rescue teams were battling to reach a further 61 trapped underground after a fire at five iron ore mines in northern China, officials and media said yesterday.
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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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At least 63 miners are known to have died after Sunday's mine explosion, with more than 100 missing.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - 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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The final death toll from a fire at a  remote Russian gold mine reached 25 on Sunday as rescuers found  the bodies of four men, the last of the miners trapped deep  underground three days earlier.
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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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Signs of prayer and support for six trapped miners remained on display Saturday as residents of central Utah's coal belt struggled with the realization that the men would not be found alive.