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, NOVEMBER 28: A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Sunday, trapping as many as 166 miners in what could be the worst disaster to hit the worldâs most dangerous mining industry in years.
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A gas explosion has torn through a coal mine in northern China, trapping at least 177 miners in what could be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s most dangerous mining industry in years.
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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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The death toll from a coal mine blast in northern China has risen to 166, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday, confirming one of the worst disasters to hit the world's most dangerous mining industry.
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BEIJING: All the coal miners trapped after a gas explosion in a shaft in norther China are dead, bringing the toll to 166 in one of the worst disasters to hit the world&#39;s most dangerous mining industry, state media said yesterday.
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The death toll from a coal mine blast  in northern China has risen to 166, Xinhua news agency said  Wednesday, confirming one of the worst disasters to hit the  world's most dangerous mining industry.
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FOUR workers were pulled out alive from a mine in north China today, leaving 166 colleagues trapped and feared dead after a gas explosion, local officials said.
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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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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 -- An explosion tore through a coal mine in central China yesterday, sending smoke billowing from air vents and trapping at least 166 miners in tunnels and shafts below without a method of communication, the government said.
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The death toll from a coal mine blast in northern China has risen to 166, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. &quot;The spokesman for the mine just declared all the 166 miners were killed,&quot; the
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At least 187 men remain trapped underground after a gas explosion at a mine in central China.
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FUXIN, China  - Rescuers searching for miners trapped by a coal mine explosion in northeastern China found six more bodies early Wednesday, bringing the death toll in the country's worst mining disaster in decades to 209, the government said.
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A gas explosion in a crowded coal mine  in China killed at least 60 people and left 88 missing with  little hope of surviving the country's most serious mine  accident in years.
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At least 25 miners died in a major gas explosion at a mine in China Sunday, while 141 men remained trapped underground. Forty-five of the 127 miners rescued were injured, reported Xinhua, China&#39;s main government-run news agency.
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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.