MOSCOW (AP) – A methane gas leak at a coal mine in Russia’s far north triggered three explosions that ignited a raging fire and partially collapsed the mine, killing 36 people, officials said Sunday.
MOSCOW - A devastating explosion in a Siberian coal mine Thursday left 52 miners and rescuers dead about 250 meters (820 feet) underground, Russian officials said. Hours after a methane gas explosion ...
MOSCOW — Rescuers pulled the bodies of 38 workers from a southern Siberian coal mine after a methane explosion Thursday in what was the latest accident to hit the ailing industry. Grieving relatives ...
A Russian journalist who worked for the state-run television network Channel One was reportedly killed after her car struck an “enemy mine” in the western Belgorod region, near the Ukrainian border.
MOSCOW — An explosion ripped through a mine in the coal-rich Kuzbass region of Siberia on Wednesday, killing at least 17 workers and leaving nine missing in the latest accident in an industry plagued ...