17 Miners Trapped

Rescuers have pulled out all 41 workers trapped for 17 days inside a collapsed Uttarakhand tunnel after rat miners drilled through the debris, triggering jubilation. The focus will now be on what led to the collapse and why the rescue took so long.

Forty-one labourers, trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand for 17 days, are expected to be evacuated shortly. The breakthrough came after "rat miners" were brought in around 7 last evening. They have to manually dig the last stretch of 12 meters.

Rescue teams today recovered the body of one out of the at least five miners who were trapped in a rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district on May 30.

The multi-agency operation launched on Sunday to rescue the 15 miners trapped in a 370-foot-deep coal mine did not yield much results as the divers from the Indian Navy and NDRF could not reach the bottom of the pit, the officials said.

Rescuers on Thursday called off a search for miners who were trapped underground for five days after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, declaring 17 dead, a local lawmaker told AFP.

All 17 miners were freed today from an underground salt mine in upstate New York, 10 hours after becoming trapped in a malfunctioning elevator, officials said.

Rescue workers said today they have freed four of 17 miners trapped in an elevator deep below ground in upstate New York.

At least 17 miners were trapped after a blast in a coal mine in Xinjiang region of northwest China.

At least 17 miners were killed and more than 200 remain trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in the western Turkish province of Manisa on Tuesday, officials said.

All 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for 17 days have been found alive, Chile's president confirmed on Sunday.But as relatives celebrated outside the San Jose mine at Copiapo, 800 kilometres (500 miles) North of Santiago, rescue workers said it could take four months to get them out.A probe sent some 2,257 feet (688 metres) deep into the ...

Rescuers have pulled out all 41 workers trapped for 17 days inside a collapsed Uttarakhand tunnel after rat miners drilled through the debris, triggering jubilation. The focus will now be on what led to the collapse and why the rescue took so long.

Forty-one labourers, trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand for 17 days, are expected to be evacuated shortly. The breakthrough came after "rat miners" were brought in around 7 last evening. They have to manually dig the last stretch of 12 meters.

Rescue teams today recovered the body of one out of the at least five miners who were trapped in a rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district on May 30.

The multi-agency operation launched on Sunday to rescue the 15 miners trapped in a 370-foot-deep coal mine did not yield much results as the divers from the Indian Navy and NDRF could not reach the bottom of the pit, the officials said.

Rescuers on Thursday called off a search for miners who were trapped underground for five days after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, declaring 17 dead, a local lawmaker told AFP.

All 17 miners were freed today from an underground salt mine in upstate New York, 10 hours after becoming trapped in a malfunctioning elevator, officials said.

Rescue workers said today they have freed four of 17 miners trapped in an elevator deep below ground in upstate New York.

At least 17 miners were trapped after a blast in a coal mine in Xinjiang region of northwest China.

At least 17 miners were killed and more than 200 remain trapped underground after an explosion in a coal mine in the western Turkish province of Manisa on Tuesday, officials said.

All 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for 17 days have been found alive, Chile's president confirmed on Sunday.But as relatives celebrated outside the San Jose mine at Copiapo, 800 kilometres (500 miles) North of Santiago, rescue workers said it could take four months to get them out.A probe sent some 2,257 feet (688 metres) deep into the ...