At least 87 people are now known to have died in a coal mine blast in northern China, state media reports, with another 21 reportedly still missing. The toll has more than doubled from the 42 dead reported earlier. Some 528 ...Read More
BEIJING - Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground Sunday as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese coal mine jumped to 87.
The pre-dawn blast Saturday at the state-run Xinxing mine ...Read More
HEGANG, China - Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground Sunday as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese mine jumped to 87 — the deadliest blast to hit the beleaguered ...Read More
Updated at 9:06 p.m. EST A state news agency says the death toll in a northeast China coal mine blast has jumped to 87. The official Xinhua News Agency says another 21 people are still trapped underground Sunday after the pre-dawn blast ...Read More
Rescuers are still searching the pit for the missing miners
At least 87 people are now known to have died in a coal mine blast in northern China, state media report.
Another 21 miners are reportedly still missing in the Xinxing ...Read More
HARBIN, China (AP) - Rescuers working in frigid cold and darkness tried to reach 66 people believed trapped a third of a mile (half a kilometer) underground after a huge gas explosion Saturday ripped through a coal mine in northern ...Read More
KABUL -- A rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel in Afghanistan's capital late Saturday, wounding at least two, the Interior Ministry said.
An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw police searching through rubble along the wall of the hotel's ...Read More
PATNA, India—A passenger train derailed after Maoist rebels blew up a key track in eastern India, killing two people and injuring at least 30 others, a police official said Friday. The rebels bombed the track shortly before the train passed through ...Read More
TOULOUSE, France (AP) - A court has acquitted a subsidiary of French oil giant Total and a former factory chief in a 2001 explosion at a chemical plant that killed 31 people. The court in Toulouse, in southwest France, acquitted the ...Read More
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A suicide bomberdetonated a vest packed with explosives in a crowded market insouthern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 10 civilians andwounding 13, a provincial police chief said. Uruzgan province police chief Juma Gul Himat said thebomber's ...Read More
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