Russian coal mine blast kills 21
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A methane blast in a coal mine in southern Siberia kills at least 21 people, Russian officials say.
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A powerful blast ripped through a coal  mine in Kazakhstan on Sunday, killing 23 people, a spokesman  for the Central Asian state's Emergencies ministry said.
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YUBILEYNAYA MINE, Russia  - An explosion at a Siberian coal mine killed at least 35 people on Thursday, emergency officials said, weeks after 110 miners died in a blast at a neighboring mine operated by the same company.
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A methane blast in a mineshaft in  Russia's Siberia killed 13 people and injured 23 on Thursday, a  spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry said.
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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.
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A methane blast in a mineshaft in Russia&#39;s Siberia has killed 13 people and injured 23, a spokesman for the Emergencies Ministry says.
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ALMATY, Dec 5: Twenty-three coal miners died on Sunday when a methane gas blast tore through a mine owned by a global Indian steel producer in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, the latest accident to strike the Soviet-era industry.
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An explosion ripped through a mine in a coal-rich region of Siberia on Wednesday, killing at least 22 workers and three missing in the latest accident in an industry plagued by dilapidated shafts, aging equipment and safety violations.
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A gas blast at a coal mine in southern China killed 13 miners, leaving three others missing, the State Administration of Work Safety said on its Web site.
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Rescuers pumped fresh air into the smoke-choked shafts of a Siberian gold mine Friday, hoping that 21 miners were still alive a day after a fire killed at least 12 workers in Russia's latest mining disaster.
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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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Thirteen miners died in an explosion in a coal mine in Siberia Thursday morning, and at least 23 among 90 rescued from the mine were injured.
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THIRTEEN miners died and 23 were injured after an explosion ripped through a pit in central Siberia yesterday, trapping dozens of miners, Russia&#39;s Emergencies Ministry said.
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The death toll from a methane blast that ripped though a coal mine in southern Poland has risen to 21 after rescue workers found more bodies, a spokesman for the company operating the mine said.
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A gas explosion in a coal mine in northeastern Heilongjiang province has killed 13 miners in the latest accident to hit the world's deadliest mining industry, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
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DONETSK, Ukraine  - An explosion caused by a   buildup of gas killed 13 miners and injured more than 60 on   Wednesday in the heart of eastern Ukraine's Donbass coalfield,   officials said.
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Rescuers recovered the bodies of 15 more workers killed in a Polish mine explosion early Thursday, bringing the death toll to 21 and leaving little hope that the remaining two missing men would be found, a mining company spokesman said.