Chinese mine disaster kills 25, traps more than 140
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BEIJING - At least 25 miners have been killed and about 140 are trapped after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China. The official Xinhua news agency says there were 293 miners working underground
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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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BEIJING -- Nearly 150 miners were feared killed by a gas explosion in a coal shaft in central China, the highest recent toll in a series of underground tragedies in the country's hard-pressed energy industry, the government said yesterday.
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An underground gas explosion in a mine in central China has killed at least 56 workers and left almost 100 missing in one of the worst mining disasters in recent memory, officials said today.
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A flood and gas leak in a colliery in northeastern China has killed 22 miners and 7 are missing, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.
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An explosion at a coal mine in south China killed at least 15 workers, state media said Thursday, the latest disaster to strike the country's notoriously dangerous mining industry.
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Twenty-five Chinese coal miners were killed and 141 remained trapped underground a day after China&#39;s third major mining accident in less than six weeks.
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Fifteen workers died and five are missing after gas explosions at two separate coal mines in China, officials and state media said.
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POISONOUS fumes were preventing rescuers from reaching 141 miners trapped underground at a coalmine in northern China yesterday after an explosion that killed 25 of their colleagues.
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A gas explosion at a coal mine in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi killed 28 miners and five rescuers, the government said on Friday, in the latest in a grim series of similar disasters.
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A gas explosion at a coal mine in the  northern Chinese province of Shanxi killed 28 miners and five  rescuers, the government said on Friday, in the latest in a  grim series of similar disasters.
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The death toll from a coal mine explosion in central China last week has risen to 122, with 26 people still missing. The accident happened at the Daping mine in Xinmi, central Henan province, on Wednesday, when 446 miners were working underground.
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BEIJING -- An explosion in a coal mine has killed 29 miners in the same Chinese province where a blast at another mine claimed nearly 150 lives last month, the government said Friday.
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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 at a coal mine in central China has killed at least 56 people and left 100 others missing. More than 400 people were working in the mine in Henan province when the explosion happened late on Wednesday.
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Five miners are killed by an explosion which leaves up to 240 trapped in a Siberian coal mine.
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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.