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Ecuador: 4 miners trapped after tunnel collapses (AP)

October 16th, 2010

AP - A tunnel collapsed in a gold mine in southern Ecuador on Friday, trapping four miners 490 feet (150 meters) underground. Authorities said rescue efforts were under way.

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Test shows Chile mine rescue shaft works (AP)

October 11th, 2010

Patricio Sepulveda, a corporal of the police special operations unit, smiles after arriving at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. After more than two months trapped deep in the gold and copper mine, 33 miners are close to being freed and Sepulveda, who forms part of the pre-selected team of rescuers, will likely be one of the paramedics to go down the escape shaft to lead the miners to the surface. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - The engineer leading Chilean rescue efforts says his team has successfully tested a rescue capsule nearly all the way down to where the miners are trapped.


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Flash floods kill 130 in Indian-held Kashmir (AP)

August 7th, 2010

People walk around an area affected by flash floods in Leh, in Indian-controlled Kashmir's normally arid, mountainous region of Ladakh, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010. The sudden overnight downpour and flash floods swept away houses and killed dozens of people, officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Josh Schrei)AP - Authorities stepped up rescue efforts as the weather improved Saturday, a day after flash floods sent rivers of mud down desert mountainsides in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing at least…

No communication from 153 trapped in China mine (AP)

March 30th, 2010

Coal miners wait for news of their colleagues at the entrance to a flooded mine shaft at the Wangjialing coal mine, in northern China's Shanxi province on March 29, 2010. Nearly 1,000 rescuers raced against the clock Tuesday to free more than 150 workers trapped in a flooded half-built coal mine in north China, as officials warned gas was building up in the pit.(AFP/Peter Parks)AP - Anxious relatives of 153 workers trapped in a flooded mine in northern China milled helplessly above ground Tuesday, demanding action and answers as rescue efforts stretched into the…

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