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.

Tragedy struck a rescue operation in a north China colliery Sunday when rescuers found the lifeless bodies of four miners trapped after a cave-in, the government said.

Thirty-four miners are now confirmed dead in a gas leak at a coal mine in southwestern China. Another nine miners are still trapped.

P ANJIM: Scores of enquiries into illegal mining activities have put a temporary halt to the high level monitoring committee to oversee the safety at the extraction sites.

Rescuers pulled seven injured miners to the surface Friday and were trying to reach 50 others trapped after a rock explosion in a coal mine in central China, state media reported.

Ram Shylla, 43, a coal labourer, was killed when the mine in which he was working caved in at Deinjem at Li-Iah village under Lad Rymbai in Jaintia Hills yesterday.

A sudden explosion of rock in a coal mine in central China following a small earthquake killed four miners and trapped 57 others, a state news agency reported on Friday.

The accident in the coal mine in the city of Sanmenxia in Henan province occurred Thursday evening when 75 miners were working in the shaft, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Fourteen workers escaped.

A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China has killed 29 workers, Chinese authorities said Sunday.

All 13 mine workers trapped in a flooded coal mine in China’s Heilongjiang Province have been confirmed dead, local authorities said today.