Chinese Officials Pinpoint Cause of Blast
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Chinese authorities say a massive coal mine blast last month that killed 148 people was sparked after mine operators failed to realize that extending the mine's shaft would greatly increase its gas level, state media reported Sunday.
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Top Chinese leaders have showed enormous concern over a deadly gas explosion, which took place at the Chenjiashan Coal Mine in northwest China&#39;s Shaanxi Province at 7:20 am on November 28, according to official sources.
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The official Xinhua News Agency is reporting that the blast in northern China killed 28 miners along with five people who descended into the pit trying to rescue them.
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The death toll from a coal mine explosion in central China last week has risen to 122, with 26 people still missing. The accident happened at the Daping mine in Xinmi, central Henan province, on Wednesday, when 446 miners were working underground.
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A powerful blast rocked the center of  the Tajik capital Dushanbe Monday in what appeared to be a car  bomb placed near the central Asian state's Emergencies  Ministry, witnesses and officials said.
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BEIJING -- An explosion at a fireworks factory yesterday in northern China killed 25 and injured nine, officials said. Most of the victims at the Xiangliu firecracker factory in Shanxi province were young women, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The cause of the explosion was under investigation, Xinhua said, and authorities were looking for the owner of the factory, ...
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SEOUL North Koreaâs foreign ministry Monday confirmed an explosion in the Stalinist country last week was connected with a power plant project, Chinaâs Xinhua news agency reported from Pyongyang.
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BEIJING  - A gas explosion in a coal mine in central China killed 56 people and left scores trapped and missing, the government said Thursday.
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An accident at an underground munitions  depot or a weapons factory was the likely cause of a huge  explosion in North Korea last week, and there were possibly two  blasts, South Korean media reports said on Monday.
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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 Thursday.
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Investigators have determined that  back-to-back coal-dust and gas blasts ripped through a mine in  northern China killing at least 63 workers and leaving 103  trapped and feared dead, state media said on Tuesday.
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FBI agents are helping investigate an explosion at a Boston-area laboratory specializing in stem-cell research, and a newspaper said on Friday the blast was caused by a pipe bomb.
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Thirty-three workers have been killed after a gas explosion at a coal mine in China&#39;s northern Shanxi province. Officials say 71 miners were in the shaft when the blast occurred at Nanlou township.
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Interior Ministry officials had earlier said the blast on Tuesday was caused by a car bomb. At least five cars were ...
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BEIJING Chinese authorities say a major oversight by operators caused a massive coal mine blast last month that killed 148 people.
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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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A gas explosion blasted through a coal mine in central China on Sunday leaving more than 160 miners missing in what may be the country&#39;s worst coal mine accident in recent years.