China Agonizes as Hope Vanishes for Missing Miners
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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 50 workers and leaving more than 110 trapped and feared dead, said reports on Tuesday.
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A woman breaks down as she waits for a news about her loved one trapped in the Chenjiashan Coalmine in Tongchuan, northwest China&#39;s Shaanxi Province, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2004.
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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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BEIJING, Oct. 21 -- Nearly 150 miners were feared killed by a gas explosion in a coal shaft in central China, the highest toll in a series of recent mine tragedies affecting the country's hard-pressed energy industry, the government said Thursday.
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A gas explosion in a crowded coal mine  in China killed at least 56 people and left 92 missing with  little hope of surviving the country's most serious mine  accident in years, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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Twenty-five Chinese coal miners were killed and 141 remained trapped underground a day after China&#39;s third major mining accident in less than six weeks.
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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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XINMI, China -- Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards yesterday at the scene of China's worst mining accident this year as rescue workers pulled more bodies out of a mine shaft choked with poison gas.
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BEIJING - Authorities in Central China are holding out little hope of finding alive the 116 men trapped in a coal mine in Shaanxi province.
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BEIJING Chinese rescuers a thousand feet underground have struggled closer today to a section of a collapsed mine shaft where they hoped to find 71 coal miners missing in a gas explosion.
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Eight Chinese miners are missing after another coal shaft was flooded, this time in southwest China, local media reported on Friday, a week after a mine flood in eastern China trapped and likely killed 181 miners.
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A miner survived is examined at a hospital in Fushun, city of northeast China&#39;s Liangning Province, Oct. 30, 2004. A sudden poisonous gas gushed at an operation platform of the Xilutian Mine of Fushun Coal Industry Corp.
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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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BEIJING -- Nearly 150 miners were feared killed by a gas explosion in a coal shaft in central China, the highest recent toll in a series of underground tragedies in the country's hard-pressed energy industry, the government said yesterday.
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At least 57 miners were dead and three missing following a massive blaze at a complex of iron mines in northern China, the government reported Monday.
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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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BEIJING Eight miners have been killed in a fire that broke out in a complex of iron mines in northern China. State media says Chinese rescuers are struggling to find 79 more miners still trapped.