A coal mine explosion in ​Colombia's Cundinamarca province killed nine workers and ‌left six others injured, the national mining agency said on Monday, several weeks after it issued risk control ​recommendations for the site.

A gas buildup triggered an explosion at a coal mine in Colombia’s central Cundinamarca department, leaving 14 miners trapped and two others evacuated, local authorities reported.

An explosion ripped through a coal mine in northern Afghanistan's Samangan province early Wednesday, killing at least seven workers and injuring two others, a local police official said.

At least five people died in a mine explosion in northern Spain on Monday morning, the local emergency services confirmed.