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Family members of miners trapped underground in the Pike River coal mine react after learning of a second explosion in the mine at a briefing by mine authorities and police in Greymouth on New Zealand's west coast November 24, 2010
Thursday, Nov. 25, 2010

Open quoteThe nation is grieving and mourning.Close quote

  • JOHN KEY,
  • New Zealand Prime Minister, on the nation's worst mining disaster in almost a century; 29 miners died
Photo: Tim Wimborne / Reuters | Source: AFP