Hope vanishes for trapped coalminers
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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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Two brothers have crawled to safety after being trapped for nearly six days in a Chinese coal mine, state media said on Monday.
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BEIJING  - Rescue teams resigned themselves to pulling only corpses from a mine where 103 workers remained trapped after a gas blast, as Chinese media demanded investment to mechanize the industry and improve safety.
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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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Struggling 1,000 feet below ground, rescuers drew close Saturday to a section of a collapsed mine shaft where they hoped to find 71 coal miners missing in a gas explosion. The number of confirmed dead rose to 77.
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Two brothers have crawled to safety  after being trapped for nearly six days in a Chinese coal mine,  state media said on Monday.
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More than 100 men are trapped and feared dead after a gas explosion at a coal mine in central China on Sunday. Dangerous carbon monoxide levels are hampering rescue efforts, but one official said it was impossible for anyone to have survived.
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Rescuers said 141 miners remained trapped in a coal mine filled with toxic gas in China&#39;s Shaanxi province Monday after an explosion the day before killed 25.
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Beijing: At least 170 miners were trapped underground after a gas explosion on Sunday ignited a fire in a coalmine in north-west China&#39;s Shaanxi province, reports said.
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An explosion in an illegal Chinese coal mine has killed eight miners and left an undetermined number missing, even as rescuers continued draining another flooded mine where at least 57 men are trapped and feared dead, officials and state-run media said Wednesday.
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At least 56 miners were killed in a coal mine gas explosion in China last night that left another 92 missing. There is only a slim chance that those missing after the blast, at the Daping mine in Henan province
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Officials in China are holding few hopes for the survival of 148 miners trapped after a coal mine explosion. So far, 56 people are confirmed to have died in the blast in Henan province and rescue work is continuing.
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Rescue crews in China are attempting to reach at least 92 workers trapped in a coal mine following an explosion Wednesday that killed at least 60 people.
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The Meng brothers felt pretty good about their chances of making it out of the collapsed coal mine, until the sound of digging from outside stopped.
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The death toll from a coal mine disaster in China has risen to 64, and hopes are fading that any survivors will be found among another 84 workers who are missing.
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Carbon monoxide prevents rescuers from reaching 141 men trapped after a deadly mine blast in central China.
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Rescuers fail to find six US men missing in a mine collapse after a sixth rescue attempt, mine officials say.