8 coal miners are killed; 15 trapped
From Times Wire Reports
Eight coal miners were killed in a suspected gas explosion in a mine in southern Poland, and rescuers were trying to reach 15 others trapped more than 3,000 feet underground, officials said.
The accident occurred as the men were demolishing a wall in an underground corridor at the Halemba coal mine in the city of Ruda Slaska, said the Southern Mining Co., which operates the mine.
Grzegorz Pawlaszek, head of the state-owned Coal Co., said the fate of the other 15 was not known.
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