41.   Four miners have been killed in Ukraine so far this year, Interfax said.

42.   For the past year-and-a-half, Ukrainian miners have been killed at a rate of about one a day.

43.   High voltage electricity killed a miner in southern Bulgaria, officials said Monday.

44.   High-voltage electricity killed a miner in southern Bulgaria officials said Monday.

45.   Heavy monsoon rains and water from an overflowing and breached canal also flooded three smaller mines on Wednesday, killing nine miners whose bodies were recovered.

46.   However, Romanian state TV late Wednesay reported that two miners were killed.

47.   In December, three gold miners were killed and four others were injured when misplaced blasting caps were detonated.

48.   In the most recent accident, three miners were killed Sunday in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, the Emergency Situations Ministry said today.

49.   It also reported that eight miners were killed.

50.   Last year six miners were killed in accidents in the same pit of the Bobovdol mines.