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Saudi: 4 pilgrims die of swine flu before hajj

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi health officials announced the first deaths from swine flu of this year's annual pilgrimage to Mecca, as four pilgrims succumbed to the disease soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia.....more>>

At least 87 dead in mine blast

HARBIN (AP) — Rescuers worked in frigid cold to reach 21 miners trapped underground Sunday as the death toll from a huge gas explosion in a northern Chinese coal mine jumped to 87.
The pre-dawn blast Saturday at the state-run Xinxing mine in Heilongjiang province near the border with Russia was the latest to hit China's mining industry — the world's deadliest. Authorities say parlous safety was improving, but hundreds still die in major accidents each year.
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