The incident occurred on February 18 in the Muxtar village area while the employee was carrying out official duties, News.Az ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GUWAHATI, India (AP) — An explosion ripped through an illegal coal mine in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya on Thursday, ...

A mine explosion in Badakhshan killed two workers, raising concerns about unsafe mining practices, environmental damage, and lack of modern safety equipment in Afghanistan.

The soldiers were among a group of American and Afghan officials examining a potential site for a shooting range in Logar Province, 25 miles south of Kabul, when one of their three vehicles hit the ...

Thirty-eight lead miners were killed when gas exploded at a pit in central Nigeria's Plateau state, local sources said.

It is now 15 days since an explosion killed two workers and left a third seriously injured at Polymetals Resources’ Endeavor silver, zinc and lead mine in Cobar, far west New South Wales (NSW). Little ...

A mine worker who was among the 31 declared dead in the devastating explosion in an illegal rat-hole coal mine in East ...