51.   Meanwhile, a miner was killed in an apparent accident in another Vorkuta coal mine Wednesday night.

52.   Methane gas exploded in a mine in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, killing five miners, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Wednesday.

53.   Miners are sometimes killed for their amber.

54.   Misplaced blasting caps exploded in an illegal gold mine in northern Vietnam, killing three miners and wounding four others.

55.   Nine miners were killed.

56.   Nine Ukrainian miners have been killed in as many days this year, officials said Saturday.

57.   On Sunday, an explosion killed seven miners in the city of Pingxian in the southeastern province of Jiangxi, the newspaper Legal Daily reported.

58.   On Saturday, a miner was killed by an underground wagon in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

59.   One miner was killed on the spot and another died of injuries in hospital, PAP said.

60.   One coal miner was killed and three more injured in an underground gas explosion in the eastern region of Donetsk, an official said Tuesday.