The death toll in the coal mine blast in China's north Shanxi Province mounted to 105 on Friday, as rescuers pulled out 26 more bodies from under the shaft.

Sixty miners have been trapped overnight in an underground gold mine in southern Ecuador after an explosion there killed at least one person, officials said.

Thousands of miners were being painstakingly brought to the surface after spending hours trapped more than two kilometres underground at a gold mine in South Africa.