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Rescuers struggle on after Russian mine blast toll exceeds 100

Russian Emergency Minister Sergei Shoigu (L) and Kemerov's region Governor Aman Tuliyev speak with media at the Ulyanovskaya mine near the town of Novokuznetsk in Kemerovo region, some 3,000 kilometres (1,864 miles) east of Moscow. The casualty toll of a gas explosion in a Siberian coal mine rose to 107 people on Tuesday, as hopes waned of finding survivors in Russia's worst mining disaster since the Soviet era.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    MOSCOW, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers are searching for miners missing underground after a mine blast in Siberia on Monday killed more than 100 people, emergency officials said on Tuesday.

    The Emergency Situations Ministry told the Interfax news agency that 106 people had been found dead after the methane explosion in the Ulyanovskaya mine in Novokuznetsk, a city in the Siberian region of Kemerovo. There were 203 people working underground when the blast hit, the ministry said.

Russia to mourn dead in three disasters

Relatives of the dead miners killed in a blast at the Ulyanovskaya mine cry at a morgue in Novokuznetsk, about 2977 km (1,850 miles) east of Moscow, Tuesday, March 20, 2007. Rescuers on Tuesday found four more bodies in this Siberian coal mine rocked by a methane gas explosion, raising the death toll to 104 in Russia's deadliest mining disaster in a decade.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    MOSCOW, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Russia on Tuesday declared a day of nationwide mourning for more than 170 people killed in a mine blast, a fire at a nursing home and a plane crash, which have occurred in the past four days in the country.

Russian mine blast toll rises to 78

    MOSCOW, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers were working to evacuate dozens of miners trapped in a Siberian coal mine after 78 people were killed in an explosion at the mine on Monday.