Tasnim | Mostafa Hasanzadeh: Coal miners earn a living at �Zemestan-Yurt� mine in Iran�s northeastern province of Golestan one year after a blast that killed 43 of their comrades and wounded many others.  

IRNA Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed condolences to his Iranian counterpart on the death of a number of miners in Azadshahr Zemestanyurt coal mine in northeastern Iran. In a message to President Rouhani on Wednesday, the Ukrainian president condoled the Iranian nation and government as well as families of the victims on the sorrowful ...

IRNA Rescue workers have retrieved bodies of seven more miners trapped under the rubble caused by a deadly explosion on Wednesday (May 3) in a coal mine in Azadshahr, an Iranian northern city. An official affiliated with the Crisis Management Department of Golestan Province told IRNA on Monday night that with the new bodies retrieved, death toll ...

IRNA - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad extended his condolences over the mine explosion incident to President Hassan Rouhani on Monday. President Assad in the message to his counterpart expressed his and the Syrian peoples condolence on the mine explosion in Azad Shahr, according to Syrias embassy in Tehran. At least 42 miners were killed and ...

Tasnim Rescue teams have reclaimed 13 more bodies on Monday morning from a coal mine that collapsed in northeast of Iran after gas explosion last week, local authorities said. Director of crisis management headquarters in Irans northeastern province of Golestan told reporters on Monday morning that rescuers have detected the remaining bodies ...

Fars News Agency - Search teams recovered bodies of 22 workers of the Zemestan-Yurt Cole mine in the Northeastern Iranian province of Golestan as rescue operation continues to save or retrieve the bodies of miners still under rubble. According to the latest reports, scores of miners are still trapped deep into the ground, while the rescuers are trying ...

AP - A coal mine explosion that struck northern Iran killed at least 35 people, semi-official news agencies reported Thursday, as rescuers worked a second day to reach those trapped inside after the blast. The Fars, Mehr and Tasnim news agencies all carried similar reports Thursday morning. State media did not immediately report on the rise in the ...

Press TV - At least two miners have lost their lives and scores of others been injured in a coal mine explosion in the northeastern Iranian province of Golestan. Sadeq-Ali Moqaddam, head of the emergency department of Golestan Province, has been quoted as saying that up to 26 people are believed to be trapped in the mine following Wednesday ...

Tasnim More than 40 coal miners have been trapped after a gas explosion and raging fire in a mine in Golestan Province, northeast of Iran. According to local officials, over 40 miners are believed to have been trapped after the explosion at midday Wednesday in Zemestan-Yurt coal mine, located in Khoshyeylaq area in the northeastern province ...

IRNA A huge explosion took place in a coal mine in Azadshahr region in this northeastern province on Wednesday, said a provincial official. Deputy Governor of Azadshahr told IRNA on a phone contact that aid workers have been dispatched to the site of the blast in Zemestanyurt coal mine. According to reports the blast was highly serious. However,...