(23 Nov 2006)
1. Industrial skyline of Ruda Slaska
2. Entrance Halemba mine
3. Flags
4. Various of mine chapel
5. Candles in front of the mine entrance
6. Woman lighting a candle
7. More candles
8. Interior, mine entrance, policemen
9. Miner leaving his equipment
10. Various of Catholic mass in church
STORYLINE:
High levels of gas forced rescuers to suspend their search for 15 miners missing more than a kilometer (3,000 feet) underground Wednesday, and the Polish president said conditions were "getting worse" for anyone trapped and still alive.
Anxious family members prayed at the shrine of St. Barbara, the patroness of miners, at the Halemba mine in southern Poland, where a methane explosion Tuesday killed eight coal miners and left the others missing.
Some 300 meters (yards) of rubble remain between the miners and where rescue workers have reached.
Locator devices carried by the missing miners have been emitting no signals, and there have been no other signs that they are still alive.
Teams have recovered six bodies from the scene of the blast in the southern city of Ruda Slaska, a spokesman for mine operator Coal Co said.
Another two bodies were located, but remained underground.
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