Bois du Cazier mining disaster of 1956

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The Bois du Cazier mining disaster of 1956 was a catastrophic coal mine fire in Marcinelle, Belgium, that killed 262 miners—many of them Italian migrant workers—and became a landmark tragedy in European industrial and labor history.

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