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BEIJING, China (AFP) — Seventeen Chinese coal miners were killed when a lift used to move workers fell down a shaft, state media reported, the latest deadly mishap in the country’s accident-prone coal-mining industry. The accident occurred Thursday when a cable supporting a mining cage caught fire, causing the rig to tumble down into a state-operated coal mine in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, Xinhua news agency said. An operation to extract the trapped […]
JHARKHAND, India (Reuters) — At least three men were killed and dozens trapped, after a pile of mine waste collapsed in a mine in eastern India run by state-run miner Coal India Limited, state police said on Friday (December 30). The collapse took place in Jharkhand state on Thursday (December 29) evening at the Lalmatia mines owned by Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL), a subsidiary of the world’s largest miner. Several vehicles engaged in the mining […]
Two miners were confirmed dead Wednesday while 13 others were still trapped after a coal mine in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province was flooded on Monday. Mud have filled the coal mine, and some lanes were blocked. Rescue work is still going on at present. Rescuers are now straining themselves in opening up two 110-meter-long rescue passages leading to the flooded site. The flood inundated the Xuxiang Colliery in Hegang’s Xing’an District at around 17:00 on […]
(Reuters) – Up to five Bosnian miners were feared dead on Friday after a rock burst left them trapped, colleagues and rescuers said, as emergency teams helped nearly 30 others reach the surface to end an 18-hour ordeal underground. The manager of the Raspotocje mine, Esad Civic, said 29 had been rescued, among 34 who had been trapped half a kilometer below the surface after an earthquake on Thursday afternoon. “We have succeeded in reaching […]
More than 500 rescuers step up efforts to save 22 workers trapped in a Southern China coal mine hit by a flood.
