Weather hampers China mine rescue
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Low temperatures complicate efforts to reach trapped miners after a blast kills at least 203 in China.
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BEIJING  - Rescue teams resigned themselves to pulling only corpses from a mine where 103 workers remained trapped after a gas blast, as Chinese media demanded investment to mechanize the industry and improve safety.
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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 efforts.
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Rescuers battled thick smoke and   blistering temperatures on Thursday as they tried to reach more   than 30 miners trapped underground by a fire at a gold mine in   Siberia.
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China, home to the world's deadliest mining industry, could be faced with a new wave of accidents as collieries start operations again following severe winter weather which forced many to close.
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Reportedly a fire in an iron mine in Northern China has killed eight miners and 79 miners are still unable to be reached. According to the news from New Chinese News Agency, five miners managed to escape from
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China, home to the world's deadliest  mining industry, could be faced with a new wave of accidents as  collieries start operations again following severe winter  weather which forced many to close.
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At least 166 miners have been trapped underground after a mine blast exploded in central China. The accident, threatens to be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s biggest coal producer in recent years, occurred
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With the weather showing little sign of improving, thousands of Chinese remain stranded and many are without power
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Wild winter weather across China left hundreds of thousands of people stranded on Monday and crippled energy and transport, stoking fears of rising deaths and economic damage blighting the biggest holiday of the year.
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Rescue teams tried to reach 86 trapped  miners on Friday after one of China's worst mine disasters in  years killed at least 62 people, prompting calls for action by  the president, state media said.
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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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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Hopes of saving 15 miners trapped for more than 24 hours in a Polish coal mine faded on Wednesday after life-threatening conditions forced rescue crews to suspend work.
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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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Eight Chinese miners are missing after another coal shaft was flooded, this time in southwest China, local media reported on Friday, a week after a mine flood in eastern China trapped and likely killed 181 miners.
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There are reports at least two dozen coal miners are dead and more than 140 are still trapped in a mine in central China. Nearly 300 workers were in the mine when a massive gas explosion tore through the shaft.
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Beijing, Nov. 28 (NNN): A mine explosion at the state-owned Chenjiashan in central Chinaâs Shaanxi province left some 200 persons trapped underground early on Sunday, according to Chinese officials here.