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africa.reuters.com
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Some 3,200 miners were trapped deep underground in a South African gold mine on Wednesday and a union spokesman said they could be suffocating.
The miners at the Elandsrand mine were caught about 2.2 km down after a power cable to a lift broke at aroun..
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CNN
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Two Chinese brothers who tunneled their way out of a coal mine collapse after being trapped for nearly six days survived by eating coal and drinking urine, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Brothers Meng Xianchen and Meng Xianyou were trapped whil..
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USA Today
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Angry relatives protested and demanded answers Sunday as rescue efforts sputtered ahead for 181 miners trapped underground for more than two days after a collapsed dike flooded two coal mines in eastern China.
Rescuers finally managed to repair the bre..
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CNN
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At least 20 people were crushed to death and several more trapped when an old building collapsed in India's financial capital, police said on Thursday, as rescuers used bulldozers and even bare hands to clear the debris. The seven-storey building in a cro..
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MSNBC
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Trains were on their way to Sichuan carrying quilts, drinking water, tents and military personnel, Ministry of Railways spokesman Wong Yongping said. All railways in the province were working except for a line where a 40-car freight train was trapped by a..
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MSNBC
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In Dujiangyan, rescue teams were trying to get to a woman who was eight months pregnant and trapped in a seven-story apartment building that collapsed.
Nearby, a man in his late 50s who refused to give his name, said his father was missing in the rubbl..
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CNN
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Rescuers struggled with flames and fallen rock in trying to reach 23 miners trapped in a coal mine Monday, a day after a methane blast killed at least 77 others in one of Ukraine's deadliest mining disasters of the post-Soviet era. Nearly 360 miners at th..
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BBC News
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Rescuers are slowly bringing to the surface thousands of workers trapped for hours in a South African gold mine.
More than 3,000 men became trapped 2.2km (1.4 miles) underground when a broken pipe severed power cables to a lift early on Wednesday.
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MSNBC
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More than 1,700 trapped gold miners were rescued during a dramatic all-night operation and efforts gathered speed Thursday to bring hundreds more terrified and exhausted workers to the surface.
The mine owner and South Africa’s minerals and energy mi..
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USA Today
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More than 1,500 trapped gold miners were rescued during a dramatic all-night operation in this country's mining heartland, and hundreds more exhausted workers were expected to be brought back to the surface Thursday.
About 3,200 miners were trapped Wed..
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CNN
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More than 2,000 workers have been freed after an accident at a South African gold mine left them stuck 2 kilometers (1.3 miles) underground but about 1,200 people remain trapped, officials say. "I'm happy now because we are out and we are alive," said Gra..
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BBC News
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Chinese emergency teams are searching for 172 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine, state media has reported.
Officials told Xinhua news agency the workers have only a slim chance of survival in the mine, in Xintai city 450km (280 miles) south of Beij..
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CNN
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Chinese police have detained 168 people accused of involvement in slavery that trapped victims in scorching brick kilns, state media said on Monday, as outrage over official complicity rippled through the usually tame press.
Of those held, 48 were caug..
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BBC News
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One person has been injured and another man remains trapped after the top two floors of a five-storey building in central London collapsed.
The emergency services were called to Dean Farrar Street in Westminster at 1604 BST on Tuesday.
The building,..
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