Courrieres coal mine disaster
The Courrières mine disaster caused the death of 1,099 miners near Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France on 10 March 1906. The Courrières disaster is Europe's worst mining disaster, and is the world's second deadliest coal mine disaster after the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on April 26, 1942, which killed 1,549 miners.
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