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Rescuers on Monday recovered the bodies of more workers killed in anexplosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, bringing the death toll in the disaster to at least 38, officials said, while there are conflicting reports the toll is greater. Another 14 miners are still believed to be trapped below ground. The blast struck the coal mine in Tabas, about 540 kilometres (335 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran, on Saturday night. On Sunday, weeping miners stood alongside mine cars that brought up the bodies of their colleagues, covered in coal dust. The state-run IRNA news agency on Monday report…

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