Rescuers race to free 15 trapped Polish miners
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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 chances of rescuing at least 141 miners trapped inside a coal mine in China after a fierce gas explosion ripped through the underground facility Sunday are bleak, say authorities.
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Polish rescuers found 13  more bodies overnight from Tuesday's coal mine disaster, taking  the death toll so far to 21, officials said on Thursday.
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Hopes of finding any survivors from one of Europe's deadliest mining accidents have ended, as rescue workers recovered the final body of 23 victims of a gas blast at a pit in southern Poland.
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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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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.
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A Polish court convicts 15 ex-militia officers of killing nine miners during a communist clampdown in 1981.
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Rescuers faced thick smoke and   blistering temperatures on Thursday as they tried to reach more   than 30 miners trapped underground by a fire at a Siberian gold   mine.
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Rescuers recovered the bodies of 11 miners and were looking Saturday for 22 others missing in a gold mine fire in Siberia, a Russian emergency official saia.
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Hopes of finding 15 Polish coal miners alive appeared to fade, a day after they were trapped deep underground by one of Europe's deadliest mining accidents for years.
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Rescuers trying to reach 141 miners trapped by an underground explosion were pumping noxious fumes out of a Chinese coal mine Monday but an official said their chances of survival were &quot;extremely slight.
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BEIJING - A wall of thick smoke blocked rescuers from reaching 141 miners trapped after a gas explosion in a coalmine in northern China.
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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.
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More than a day and a half after a deadly gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northwest China, rescuers are losing hope of finding 141 people still trapped underground.
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Rescue workers pulled 24 survivors from the wreckage of a mountain village in Taiwan Thursday after a torrent of mud and rock triggered by a typhoon buried the area, leaving 15 people feared dead.
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Russian police forced three inmate hostage-takers to release their 15 captives unharmed Monday after an hours-long standoff at a pretrial detention center in southeast Moscow, said Interfax news agency, quoting prison system director Yuri Kalinin.
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A gas explosion killed at least one  miner and trapped 23 others underground in a coal mine in  southern Poland on Tuesday, police said.