More than €100,000 worth of drugs have been seized in Dublin.

Rescue workers were burrowing through debris clogging a Mexican coal mine early today, a desperate effort to free 65 miners who had been trapped for more than a day by a gas explosion.

A gas explosion today in a northern Mexico coal mine trapped 66 miners below ground with a limited supply of oxygen, government and company officials said.

Nearly half of the 70 miners trapped underground by a fire in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan have been rescued, while the rest remained underground in emergency refuge rooms stocked with oxygen and supplies, a mine official said today.