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Five Bosnian coal miners were killed after an earthquake triggered a tunnel cave-in, trapping dozens of men underground for 20 hours, a union leader said Friday.
      
"Twenty-nine (trapped miners) came out, but unfortunately five did not survive," Sinan Husic said on national television, without offering details on the circumstances and time of the men's death.        

Rescue crews tried to reach trapped miners at the Raspotocje colliery in Zenica on Friday, as the miners themselves made efforts to make an escape route by clearing the rubble brought down in the accident the day before.

The mine's management said that the 34 trapped miners were safe, and 22 others had already managed to make their way above ground.