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MNA International Desk: At least 35 miners have killed and scores of others been injured in a coal mine explosion in the northeastern Iranian province of Golestan. The blast occurred in the Zemestanyurt mine, about 14km outside the town of Azadshahr, reported news agency. Shahin Fathi, Head of the Iran Red Crescent Search and Rescue Unit, said more than 40 miners had been trapped and six of them were rescued with injuries. The rescue operation was going slowly as tunnels were filled with poisonous gases and miners were stuck at the far end of a 1,000-metre shaft in a mine ...

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