Wall of Smoke Stalls Chinese Rescue, Hope Fades
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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 officials saw scant hope of finding more survivors.
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AS RESCUERS waited for a chance to enter a Chinese coal mine where an explosion has trapped workers and released toxic fumes, the government last night said about 50 workers were confirmed dead and more than 100 were still missing.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Hopes of saving 15 miners trapped for more than 24 hours in a Polish coal mine faded on Wednesday after life-threatening conditions forced rescue crews to suspend work.
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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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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.
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Rescuers were hoping on Monday for any chance to search for 141 Chinese workers trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine that has killed at least 25 -- the third such accident in days.
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The death toll in a coal mine explosion in central China rose to 63 with 103 workers still missing, the government said Tuesday, as toxic fumes unleashed from the blast slowed rescuers from entering the pit.
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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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Carbon monoxide prevents rescuers from reaching 141 men trapped following a deadly mine blast in central China.
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Rescuers were searching for 141 miners trapped in a coal mine in central China after a massive explosion tore through the shaft killing at least 25 others.
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Hopes are fading of finding any more survivors of a gas explosion at a coal mine in the Chinese province of Henan. Officials say at least 62 people were killed in the disaster, although the death toll is likely
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BEIJING - At least thirty-threeminers were confirmed dead and rescue teams were battling to reach a further 61 trapped underground after a fire at five iron ore mines in northern China, officials and media said yesterday.
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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.
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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of all 12 miners missing after a blast at a coal mine in central China, with no word on the fate of 181 miners trapped underground in the east for more than two weeks.
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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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Rescuers battled thick smoke on Monday to free 141 Chinese miners trapped after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China that killed at least 25, state media reported.