Fears rise for 15 trapped Polish coal miners
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - Polish officials said on Wednesday they feared the worst as rescuers battled to reach 15 miners trapped in a deep coal mine after an explosion that killed at least eight others.
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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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BEIJING _ Nearly 150 miners were feared killed by a gas explosion in a coal shaft in central China, the highest recent toll in a cadence of underground tragedies in the country&#39;s
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The bodies of all 17 men who had been trapped underground after a mine explosion in southern Poland have been found, bringing the final death toll to 23, the mining company said Thursday.Comment
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Nearly 150 miners were feared killed by a gas explosion in a coal shaft in central China, the highest recent toll in a cadence of underground tragedies in the country's hard-pressed energy industry, the government said Thursday.
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A gas explosion has torn through a coal mine in northern China, trapping as many as 166 miners in what could be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s most dangerous mining industry in four years.
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RUDA SLASKA, Poland  - All 23 Polish miners caught in a gas explosion underground in a mine in southern Poland were confirmed dead on Thursday, in the country's worst mining disaster since the 1970s.
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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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More than 40 miners were trapped in a coal  mine in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday when a mixture of coal  powder and methane exploded, a spokesman for the emergencies  ministry said.
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Fifteen people are held in Greece on suspicion of making false compensation claims after devastating forest fires.
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More than a day and a half after a deadly gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northwest China, rescuers are losing hope of finding 141 people still trapped underground.
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Rescuers were hoping Monday for any  chance to enter a colliery and search for 141 Chinese workers  trapped with scant hope of survival after a gas explosion in a  coal mine that has killed at least 25 -- the third such  accident in days.
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BEIJING - More than 140 miners remained trapped in the tunnels and shafts of a coal mine in central China after an explosion Sunday that killed 25 of their colleagues, the government said.
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At least 166 miners have been trapped underground after a mine blast exploded in central China. The accident, threatens to be the worst disaster to hit the world&#39;s biggest coal producer in recent years, occurred
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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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RUDA SLASKA, Poland - Rescue workers planned to resume efforts early on Thursday to reach 15 miners trapped underground in a Polish coal mine, but local media said it may be too late to save ...Comment
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A gas explosion blasted through a coal mine in central China on Sunday leaving more than 160 miners missing in what may be the country&#39;s worst coal mine accident in recent years.