from 2012. Ecuador About 300 people were killed on May 9, 1993, in the Nambija mine disaster in Ecuador. On October 15, 2010, shortly after Chile completed its historic, successful rescue of 33 miners who had been stuck underground in the San Jose mine for a record period of nearly 10 weeks, four workers were trapped in an Ecuadoran gold mine following a tunnel collapse. All were confirmed dead by October 20. France The Courrières mine disaster was the worst ever pit mine disaster in Europe. It caused the death of 1,099 miners (including many children) in Northern France on 10 March 1906. It seems that this disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on April 26, 1942, which killed 1,549 miners. A dust explosion, the cause of which is not known with certainty, devastated a coal mine operated by the Compagnie des mines de houille de Courrières (founded in 1852) between the villages of Méricourt (404 killed), Sallaumines (304 killed), Billy-Montigny (114 killed), and Noyelles-sous-Lens (102 killed) about two kilometres (one mile) to the east of Lens, in the Pas-de-Calais département (about 220 km, or 140 miles, north of Paris). A large explosion was heard shortly after 06:30 on the morning of Saturday 10 March 1906. An elevator cage at Shaft 3 was thrown to the surface, damaging pit-head workings; windows and roofs were blown out on the surface at Shaft 4; an elevator cage raised at Shaft 2 contained only dead and unconscious miners. India Burra Dhemo Colliery on 26.9.1956 Central Bhowrah Colliery on 20.2.1958 Central Saunda Colliery on 16.9.1976 Central Saunda Colliery on 15.06.2005 Chasnalla Colliery on 27.12.1975 Damua Colliery on 5.1.1960 Gaslitand Colliery on 26 or 27.9.1995 Godavarkhani No. 7 LEP on 16.06.2003 Hurriladih Colliery on 14.9.1983 Jotejanaki Colliery on 28.6.1913 Loyabad Colliery on 16.1.1935 Mahabir Colliery on 13.11.1989 Majri Colliery on 5.8.1953 Makerwal Colliery on 6.7.1942 Newton Chikli Colliery on 10.12.1954 Phularitand Colliery on 11.07.1912 Rajpura Dariba Mine VRM disaster on 28.8.1994 Silewara Colliery on 18.11.1975 Japan Mine disaster of a number occurs from the 1900s to 1980s in Japan, with introduce only large-scale disaster. Hokkaido New Yubari Coal Mine accident, November 1914, 423 fatalities. Hokutan Yubari, April 1912 accident, 276 fatalities. December 1912 accident, 216 fatalities. December 1938 accident, 161 fatalities. October 1981 accident 93 fatalities. South Yubari Coal mine accident, May 1985, 62 fatalities. Bibai coal mine March 1941