11.   Selangor Local Government, Urbanisation and Rural Development committee chairman Datuk Fuad Hassan said today several small methane gas explosions were heard at the height of the fire.

12.   Russian news reports said the blast likely was a methane explosion, possibly caused by an electric equipment fault.

13.   Seven Russian miners suffered burns Friday in a methane gas explosion at a Siberian mine, officials said.

14.   Thirty nine people were killed after a methane gas explosion set off an avalanche of garbage in the slum area of Umraniye three years ago.

15.   Three miners are still missing after a methane gas explosion in a coal mine in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, a news agency reported Monday.

16.   Two miners injured in a devastating methane explosion in eastern Ukraine have died, while a third miner was killed in a job accident, officials said Friday.

17.   Two miners died and another four were injured in a methane gas explosion at a Siberian coal mine Wednesday, officials said.

18.   Five people were killed and seven injured in a methane gas explosion at Elandsrand gold mine late Tuesday, mine owners Anglo American said Wednesday.

19.   Five more bodies were extricated Thursday from a government-owned colliery rocked by a methane gas explosion three days ago, the military said.

20.   A methane explosion killed three miners and two rescue workers in a mine in the Donetsk region of southeastern Ukraine, Interfax news agency reported Sunday.