State’s Tall Claims To Check Illegal Practices Fall Flat Once Again

Alwar: Two labourers were buried alive in an illegal mine after stones came crashing on them during an explosion in Alwar’s Tapukara police station area on Tuesday night. As the police and rescue workers could not take the bodies out of the debris till Wednesday night, the tall claims of state government to have enforced the Supreme Court’s complete ban on illegal mining in the area fell flat with these horrifying deaths.

The former chief of security for the Upper Big Branch mine, where 29 miners died in an explosion in 2010, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison.

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.

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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.