Chinese miners ate coal while trapped
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Two brothers who tunneled out of a collapsed mine were forced to eat coal and drink urine during the nearly six-day ordeal, but still were able to crack jokes about their wives remarrying once they were dead, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday.
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A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Sunday, trapping at least 187 miners in what could be the worst disaster to hit the world's biggest and most dangerous mining industry in years.
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At least seven miners are trapped in a flooded coal mine in China's north-eastern province of Jilin.
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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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A flood at a mine in southern China trapped 36 workers on Sunday, the government said, the latest in a recent string of disasters in the country's perilous coal mines.
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A gas explosion today in a coal mine in central China has left 187 miners trapped, the government said. The accident occurred at 7:20am (11.20pm Irish time Saturday) in the state-owned Chenjiashan coal mine
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A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in north China's Shaanxi province, trapping 170 miners in what threatens to be the worst disaster to hit the world's biggest coal producer in recent years.
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Nine Chinese miners have been killed and 57 trapped underground after fire swept through a series of iron mines in the northern province of Hebei, Xinhua news agency has reported.
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A gas explosion Sunday at a state-owned coal mine in northwest China has trapped 187 Chinese coal miners, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
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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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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.
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Rescue teams pulled two more bodies  from the rubble of China's worst coal mine disaster in years  but were struggling on Friday to reach 82 miners still trapped.  The gas explosion is known to have killed 66.
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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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Two brothers have crawled to safety  after being trapped for nearly six days in a Chinese coal mine,  state media said on Monday.
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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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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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Rescuers said 141 miners remained trapped in a coal mine filled with toxic gas in China&#39;s Shaanxi province Monday after an explosion the day before killed 25.