Emergency team were unable to save man trapped in the Curragh mine following the collapse on Friday
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Searchers have found a missing Queensland coalmine worker dead a day after he became trapped in a roof collapse.
The man was inside the Curragh mine in central Queensland when the collapse happened about 3pm on Friday. There were fears he was as deep as 1km underground.
Emergency responders found the dead worker on Saturday night, according to the state’s acting mines minister, Tony Perrett.
