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2nd blast in New Zealand mine could leave no survivor

POLICE say there has been a second blast inside the New Zealand mine where 29 workers are missing and that no one could have survived.

Police superintendent Gary Knowles said the second explosion occurred this afternoon.

Potentially explosive methane gas had been swirling in the Pike River mine since the initial blast last Friday.

Rescuers had been kept from entering the mine by the danger.




 

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