BEIJING: A gas explosion in a coal mine has killed two miners and left eight others trapped, a local authority in eastern China said Saturday. The blast happened on Friday night in Shangrao county in Jiangxi province, initially trapping 10 miners in the privately run Yongji Coal Mine, the Shangrao government information office said in an online statement. Two bodies were later found, it said. It gave no details on the cause of the blast. The state media reported that the mine’s owner was being questioned by police. There hasRead More

ANKARA: At least 30 people were killed and 126 wounded in twin blasts targeting a peace rally outside the train station in the Turkish capital Ankara, the interior ministry said in a statement The explosions occurred minutes apart near Ankara’s train station as people gathered for the rally organised by the country’s public sector workers’ trade union. The Turkish government suspects the twin blasts to be a “terrorist attack”. “We suspect that there is a terrorist connection,” a government official told media, asking not to be named. The rally aimedRead More