Mine Blast in China Traps 170 Workers
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BEIJING Nov 28, 2004 - At least 170 workers were trapped Sunday after an explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine, sending smoke billowing out from air vents, the government said.
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Beijing - A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in north China&#39;s Shaanxi province on Sunday, trapping 166 miners in what threatens to be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s biggest coal producer in recent years.
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A gas explosion that tore through a coal mine in central China trapped 166 workers in underground shafts filled with noxious smoke in the latest and apparently the deadliest of a series of Chinese mining disasters, officials said Monday.
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At least 203 miners are killed, 22 hurt and 13 trapped in a gas blast at a coal mine, Chinese state media says.
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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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BEIJING  - All 166 miners trapped after a gas blast in China were confirmed dead, sparking riots by hundreds of angry relatives who stormed a government office, smashed windows and beat officials.
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BEIJING -- A gas explosion in a crowded coal mine in central China has killed at least 56 people and left scores missing, the Xinhua news agency said today.
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BEIJING - Chinese authorities say 141 miners trapped in an underground gas explosion Sunday have no chance of survival, bringing the toll from the disaster to 166 and making it the country&#39;s worst mining disaster in four years.
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A gas explosion blasted through a coal mine in central China today, leaving more than 160 miners missing in what may be the country&#39;s worst coal-mine accident in recent years.
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Beijing - When a gas explosion at 7:10 am occurred on Sunday it eft about 170 Chinese miners were trapped thousands of feet underground, the story hit world news shortly after 10.
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Chinese authorities have confirmed that all 166 miners trapped underground after an explosion at a coal mine in northern China are now dead.
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Four workers have been pulled out alive from a mine in north China, leaving 166 colleagues trapped and feared dead after a gas explosion, local officials said.
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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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Beijing: At least 56 people were killed and over 100 are missing in an explosion that ripped through a coal mine in central Chinas Henan Province, local officials said on Thursday.
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A gas explosion has torn through a coal mine in northern China, trapping as many as 166 miners in what could be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s most dangerous mining industry in four years.
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An explosion at a coal mine in north China on Wednesday killed at least 22 workers and injured 37, in the latest incident to hit the country&#039;s disaster-plagued mining industry.
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An explosion in a coal mine has killed 29 miners in the same Chinese province where a blast at another mine claimed nearly 150 lives last month, the government said Friday.