Local police had to disperse a crowd of protesters in Soma as anger swept through the country over the coal mine disaster that has killed hundreds.

Officials have confirmed the deaths of at least 245 miners, saying about 120 are still feared trapped after an explosion and fire in the Soma mine.

An explosion and fire in a coal mine in western Turkey has killed at least four miners and trapped as many as 300 more.

An explosion rocked a remote colliery in New Zealand on Friday, trapping 27 miners underground, the company and local authorities said.

Twenty-seven miners were killed and another seven remained trapped after an explosion in a Chinese coal mine, state media said on Saturday.

Rescue workers found 23 miners missing underground after a gas explosion at a Ukrainian colliery and were bringing them to safety on Monday through a narrow ventilation shaft.

Rescuers on Monday brought to the surface alive two miners missing after a gas explosion at a Ukrainian colliery, and tried to push down a ventilation shaft to find 34 of their…

Thirty-seven miners were missing after a gas explosion tore through a pit in Ukraine’s Donbass coalfield on Sunday.

Mining is and always will be a dangerous business. But every time there is a seismic event, a rockfall, or, as happened this week, a broken lift, a new round of muttering begins.