Nine people were confirmed dead and five others remained trapped following a coal mine flood in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, rescuers said early on Thursday.
The accident happened at 7 a.m. Wednesday in a shaft of the Junyuan No. 2 Coal (...)
When gas levels suddenly spiked deep in the Xinxing coal mine, Wang Jiguo grabbed two co-workers and they ran for their lives. Minutes later, there was a huge bang, a torrent of hot air and the earth shuddered, according to AP.
Nearly two days (...)
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 industry in nearly two years, AP (...)
