1. The miners have been trapped underground for three days. 2. Twenty miners were trapped underground. 3. Six miners have been trapped two thousand feet underground at Blisthorpe Colliery in Nottinghamshire. 4. Peter Alcock, the last miner of six trapped in the Bilsthorpe pit in Nottinghamshire, has been certified dead at the scene. 5. A sudden eruption of coal and gas trapped miners in a remote shaft of a mine in eastern Ukraine, killing four of them, officials said Friday. 6. An earthquake damaged buildings and cut water and electricity to a gold mining town Friday, trapping miners in shafts when their elevators ceased to function. 7. An underground explosion in a private coal mine trapped five miners Friday evening near the central Anatolian city of Cankiri, a municipality worker said early Saturday. 8. Four miners were trapped in a collapse at a coal mine in the eastern Ukrainian Donetsk region, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Monday. 9. In a landslide Saturday, wooden props at an entrance to the mine collapsed, trapping miners inside. 10. Initial reports said more miners were trapped, but officials later said no more miners were expected to be found and the search was over. |