New Zealand Mine Blast

• 29 miners believed dead after second New Zealand blast

  All 29 men missing in a New Zealand mine were presumed dead today after a "horrific" second blast tore through the colliery, plunging the country into mourning.Police said there was now no chance of finding anyone alive, confirming the country's worst mining accident in nearly a century and prompting anguished scenes as distraught relatives wept, s...

• 29 workers feared dead after second blast at New Zealand mine

  All 29 workers missing underground in a New Zealand coal mine are believed to have died after a second explosion, police said.Police superintendent Gary Knowles said the second explosion occurred mid-afternoon Wednesday, almost exactly five days after the first blast in the Pike River mine.Potentially explosive methane gas had been swirling in the ...