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At least five people are killed and 48 others are reported missing following a collapse at a coal mine in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China. Search and rescue operations are underway.
2023-02-22

A fire inside a coal mine in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, traps 285 miners underground. Forty-six miners are killed and 49 others are being treated for smoke inhalation in hospital. Five rescuers later die while searching for trapped miners, bringing the total death toll to 51.
2021-11-25

At least 18 people are killed during the collapse of an artisanal gold mine in Dan Issa, Maradi Region.
2021-11-7

Eleven of the miners who went missing two weeks ago in Qixia, Shandong, China, after the gold mine where they worked collapsed, are rescued alive. Another miner is found dead, while ten others are still missing.
2021-01-24

A major search and rescue operation is underway following a collapse at a gold mine in Bindura, Zimbabwe. Around 30 miners remain unaccounted for since the collapse, while six men have emerged alive from the mine.
2020-11-28

An early-morning landslide buries 40 homes and leaves 15 people dead and 114 others missing in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. At least 500 rescue workers are on scene, and a 2-km stretch of the river in Mao County is blocked.
2017-06-24

A rain-triggered landslide in southern China's Sichuan Province buries between 30-40 people.
2013-07-10

A mining accident in China's Jilin Province kills at least 18 people and injures 12 others.
2013-04-21

A landslide in China's Sichuan Province caused by heavy rains results in 21 people being missing.
2010-07-27

Heavy rain triggers landslides that leave at least 24 people dead in Sichuan province's Kangding county. In one incident, part of a mountain fell on a construction site in Sichuan province, crushing workers who were sleeping in tents.
2010-06-15