An Army jawan was injured this morning in a mine blast along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, an Army official said.

Seven miners were killed by a powerful explosion caused by gas that accumulated in a coal mine in Pakistan’s tribal belt today, officials said.

South African President Jacob Zuma announced Friday a probe into the deaths of 34 miners in a police crackdown on a wildcat strike, in the deadliest protest since apartheid.

Police at the Marikana pl

Fifty-three rescuers sent in to recover five trapped coal miners at a colliery in southwest China had to be pulled to safety on Thursday after they too became stuck underground, state media said.

Seven miners were killed on Wednesday in an explosion at a coal mine in northern Mexico, police said.

"We confirm the recovery of the bodies of the seven trapped miners," local police official Franc

A car detonated an anti-tank mine on the border between Chile and Peru, killing the Peruvian driver, Chilean authorities said on Saturday.

The Chilean army said in a statement that the incident occur

Rescuers in China were battling against the clock on Friday to rescue more than 50 coal miners trapped underground after a sudden explosion of rocks killed four of their colleagues.

An official at th

At least three persons were feared to have been killed after the 'tailing stack' of a mine collapsed at Cuddegal in Sanvordem in South Goa.

The incessant rains that have been battering the state for

Wellington: The remains of 29 miners will probably be permanently entombed in a New Zealand colliery, with authorities acknowledging that efforts to make the mine safe enough to retrieve the bodies ar

The Chilean company behind the mine from which 33 miners were rescued on October, following its collapse, has agreed to sell its assets within 15 months to avoid bankruptcy, a court has said.