Fire at Turkish copper mine kills 19, injures 17
192109
A fire raged through a copper mine in northern Turkey on Wednesday, killing 19 workers and injuring 17 others. Rescuers were searching the smoke-clogged shafts to make sure no one was left inside.
223798
collapse in the mine located near the town of Kure in the Black Sea province of Kastamonu. Earlier reports said a gas leak had sparked the fire.
243754
Eight miners were confirmed dead up to 8:00 am Sunday in the five iron mines that caught fire Saturday morning in the city of Shahe in north China&#39;s Hebei Province, while 19 were rescued and 79 still trapped.
314898
A powerful blast ripped through a coal mine in Kazakhstan on Sunday, killing 23 people, a spokesman for the Central Asian state&#39;s emergencies agency said.
115090
A huge fire has swept through a copper mine in northern killing at least 19 workers and injuring another 17 according to local officials.
536228
A fire in a Russian workers' hostel  killed at least 19 people and may have injured many more, the  Emergencies Ministry said on Wednesday.
394131
Twelve miners are killed in a fire in a British-owned Siberian gold mine and more than 20 remain trapped.
191395
AT least nine miners were confirmed dead and rescue teams were battling to reach a further 57 trapped underground after a fire at five iron ore mines in northern China, officials and media said today.
526147
BEIJING : Thirty-three miners were confirmed dead and 61 others were missing after a fire at five iron ore mines in northern China.
672896
ALGIERS: A gas explosion yesterday killed 17 people and injured at least 40 others when a residential block collapsed in eastern Algeria, local authorities said.
58256
The death toll in the five iron mines that caught fire Saturday morning in Shahe City in north China&#39;s Hebei Province has risen to 57, said an official with the leading group in charge of the rescue operation.
296717
57 miners have died in a fire at five connected iron ore mines in northern China. The fire started last Saturday in a privately run mine in Shahe city, and rapidly spread to four other mines nearby, trapping 106 people working underground.
136203
EIGHT bodies were pulled from an underground tunnel in a copper mine in northern Turkey where a massive fire broke out today, local officials said.
22697
At least 203 miners are killed, 22 hurt and 13 trapped in a gas blast at a coal mine, Chinese state media says.
456430
TUNCELI, Turkey  - Two Turkish troops were killed in combat with separatist Kurdish rebels and a mine blast in eastern Turkey, army sources said on Friday.
131189
A gas explosion today in a coal mine in central China has left 187 miners trapped, the government said. The accident occurred at 7:20am (11.20pm Irish time Saturday) in the state-owned Chenjiashan coal mine
617814
ANKARA: At least 19 miners were killed when a fire broke out in a copper mine in northwestern Turkey and as many as 20 more people were believed to be trapped in the mine&#39;s tunnel.