In 2016, 36 miners were killed in a series of methane explosions in a coal mine in Russia's far north. In the wake of the incident, authorities analyzed the safety of the country's 58 coal mines ...

In 2004, a methane explosion left 13 miners dead. In 2007, a methane explosion at the Ulyanovskaya mine in the Kemerovo region killed 110 miners in the deadliest mine accident since Soviet times.

3 March 1992: 263 deaths in Kozlu with methane explosion. 26 March 1995: 37 killings in Sorgun with methane explosion. 22 November 2003: 10 killings in Ermenek with methane explosion.

At 5:18 on the morning of May 9, 1992, a methane explosion tore through the Westray coal mine in Pictou County, N.S., taking the lives of 26 men. Shaun Comish, a Westray miner, was among the lucky ...

A methane explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran killed dozens of miners, and the death toll was expected to rise, Iranian state media said on Sunday. The miners died of suffocation from the ...

Iranian authorities on September 23 updated the death toll in a mining explosion to 38, with 14 others still trapped within the mine. The new death toll was lower that the 51 reported dead on ...

A Prince George, B.C., sawmill where an explosion killed two workers and injured two dozen others in April has been shut down indefinitely after soil tests revealed high levels of methane gas.