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MINING DISASTER
MILLS TAMAYC One of history's worst mine disasters occurred xx today in Rodesia. There was an underground explosion in a coal mine about 200 miles north of the city of Bulawayo. Officials say 4i68 miners were underground at the time and there is no indication that any of them survived. R rs tried to reach the s of the exp os n but were ampered by gas and d age to the ation system. At least four miners, working on the surface, were in -ed by the expl sion.