Blast at coalmine traps 140 workers
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AN EXPLOSION in one of Chinaâs notoriously dangerous coalmines killed at least 25 men and trapped about 140 underground yesterday.
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Thirty-three miners were killed and 24 injured in an explosion at a coal mine in North China&#39;s Shanxi Province on Thursday. Miner Zhang Jiulin managed a lucky escape from a pit
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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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A wall of thick smoke blocked rescuers on Monday from 141 Chinese miners trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China that killed at least 25, and
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Twenty-three people died and three others were injured Sunday in an explosion at a coal mine in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, officials said.
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A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has trapped 187 miners, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday. The blast tore through the state-run Chenjiashan
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BEIJING  - A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in north China&#39;s Shaanxi province, 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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A mine explosion left more than 160 miners trapped underground Sunday.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - A gas explosion killed at least one miner and trapped 23 others underground in a deep coal mine in southern Poland on Tuesday, police said.
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BEIJING -- A gas explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine today, trapping at least 187 miners, the government said.
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A fire at a coal mine in northern China has trapped 15 workers and has been burning since Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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By 1 pm on Sunday, 123 miners were rescued alive after a major gas explosion took place at the Chenjiashan Coalmine, Shaanxi Province, around 7:10 am but another 170 remained trapped underground.
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A gas explosion killed at least one miner and trapped 23 others underground in a coal mine in southern Poland on Tuesday, police said.
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At least five miners were killed and 14  injured in a blast in a coal mine in Russia's Siberia, the  Emergencies Ministry said on Thursday.
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BEIJING -- 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 today.
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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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There are reports at least two dozen coal miners are dead and more than 140 are still trapped in a mine in central China. Nearly 300 workers were in the mine when a massive gas explosion tore through the shaft.