Sources said at least four coalminers were killed when toxic gas accumulated in a coalmine, causing an explosion in the Chamalang area of Balochistan.

Fifteen miners died and another three were injured when a tramcar derailed in a coal mine in central China, authorities said yesterday , in the latest accident to hit the dangerous industry.

Fifteen miners died and another three were injured after a tramcar derailed in a coal mine in central China, authorities said Thursday, in the latest accident to hit the nation's mining sector.

The accident occured at a pit near Leiyang city in Hunan province in the early hours of Thursday morning, China's work safety administration said in a statement.

Chandrapura (Bokaro), Feb.

A gas explosion in a southwest China coal mine Friday killed 11 workers and injured six others, state press said in the latest accident to hit the nation’s dangerous mining industry.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister of Higher Education Qazi Muhammad Asad distributed cheques worth Rs 100,00 to the families of the men who were killed a fortnight ago in a phosphate mine collapse in the

Affected villagers of Barapukuria coal mine area at Phulbari in Dinajpur postponed on Thursday night their hunger strike till January 30.

At least four people were killed and 12 others injured in a coal mine explosion in China’s southwestern Sichuan Province.

Jaipur: In a paradox of sorts even as the Director General of Mines Safety commenced its safety week from Sunday, the killing fields of Makrana saw yet another mine worker succumbing to an accident. Thirty five year old Bhanwarlal was killed instantly after the bucket in an earth moving vehicle came crashing down on him inside a marble mine in Makrana.

A gas explosion at a mine in central China has killed nine workers.

The accident happened Saturday afternoon at a mine in Hunan province's Sandu township.