AMAGA, Colombia (Reuters) - More than 70 Colombian miners were trapped and all were feared dead on Thursday after an explosion ripped through a coal mine in what could become one of the Andean country's worst mining disasters.
At least 16 bodies were pulled from the wreckage after the midnight gas explosion at the San Fernando mine in northwestern Antioquia province. The death toll was expected to rise as rescuers worked their way slowly down the mine shift.
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