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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The death toll from a mine blast in central China has risen to 78, with rescuers holding out little hope for 71 people still missing, state media said on Saturday.
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BEIJING: Rescue workers in central China searched Thursday for 88 coal miners who were missing after a gas explosion ripped through a shaft, killing at least 60 others in the country&#39;s deadliest mine disaster this year.
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Reportedly a fire in an iron mine in Northern China has killed eight miners and 79 miners are still unable to be reached. According to the news from New Chinese News Agency, five miners managed to escape from
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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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CHENJIASHAN MINE, China The 141 miners trapped inside a mine in northern China following a gas explosion have no chance of survival and are presumed dead, a local Communist Party secretary said Monday.
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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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A gas explosion in a coal mine killed at least 56 miners, and chances were low that 92 missing people would survive, in China&#39;s deadliest coal mining accident this year, officials said today.
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Desperate to know their loved ones' fates, grieving relatives scuffled with guards Friday 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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THE death toll in a coal mine explosion in central China has risen to 63, with 103 miners still missing. The Government said yesterday an underground fire and toxic fumes from the blast hampered rescue work.
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At least 56 people were killed in a major coal mine disaster in China today and the toll may rise to 204 with officials nearly giving up hope of finding the missing 148 miners alive in central Henan province.
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The death toll in one of China&#39;s major coal mine disaster is set to rise to 204 with officials nearly giving up hope of finding the missing 148 miners alive in central China&#39;s Henan province.
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Rescue crews were searching Tuesday for coal miners missing nearly 800 feet underground after a gas explosion in China's northeast killed 203 people in the deadliest mining disaster reported since communist rule began in 1949.
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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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Toxic gas hampered the search for 141 trapped coal miners Monday following an explosion in central China, and an official said their chances of survival were ``extremely slight.
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Some 56 people were killed and another 100 were reported missing in a coal mine blast in central China, state media said Thursday.
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The death toll from a devastating coal mine gas explosion in central China's Henan province rose to 66 as hopes of finding survivors among a further 82 trapped workers faded.