A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China killed 29 workers.

A coal mine fire has trapped 28 workers underground in eastern China as rescuers elsewhere tried to reach 42 miners not seen since heavy rains flooded two other mines over the weekend.

Safety officials said a gas explosion from a coal mine in south west China has killed 16 miners with three more missing.

An electrical fire inside a coal shaft in northern China left 28 miners dead, a government official said today.

Seventeen miners were killed by a dynamite explosion at a coal mine in central China, authorities said today.

The first group of rescuers and divers today entered a flooded Chinese mine where 153 workers have been trapped for almost a week, but returned within hours and described the situation underground “very difficult.”

Rescuers were scrambling today to save 153 workers trapped after a flood swept through a coal mine in northern China, the country’s work safety agency said.

Grieving miners’ families demanded answers today from mining officials about the underground gas explosion that left at least 104 men dead in northeastern China.

Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground today 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.

A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China today, killing 31 people and trapping 82 others nearly a third of a mile under ground, government authorities said.

A COAL mine blast killed 35 miners in central Henan province in China yesterday and left 44 trapped.

A coal mine blast killed 35 miners in central Henan province today and left 44 trapped.

An explosion at a factory in eastern China has killed 16 people and injured dozens more.

Rescuers wearing headlamps and oxygen backpacks carried dozens of miners to safety today after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China killed at least 74.

A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northern China today, killing at least 73 miners and trapping dozens in the still-burning shaft, an official said. It was the country’s deadliest coal mine accident in more than a year.

Rescuers hammered at debris today searching for survivors buried under sludge in northern China after a landslide that has killed at least 128 people, but hopes of finding anybody alive were fading.

The death toll after a torrent of sludge, mud and mining waste ploughed into buildings in northern China has risen to at least 34 people, with hundreds more feared trapped in the rubble, state media reported today.

Eighteen railway workers were killed and another nine injured when a high-speed train ran into them, China’s work safety watchdog said today.

ANGRY relatives demanded answers yesterday as hopes dwindled for 181 miners trapped underground more than 48 hours after a collapsed dike in eastern China flooded two coal mines.

The Chinese government is closing 5,290 coal mines in a safety crackdown on the world’s deadliest mining industry,it was announced today.

The death toll in a gas explosion in a Chinese coal mine rose to 64 today with 84 still missing as another 41 miners were reported killed or missing in two other accidents.