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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/10000-mourn-blastdeath-miners.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="People attend a remembrance service in Greymouth, New Zealand (NZPA)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-10000-mourn-blastdeath-miners.jpg" alt="People attend a remembrance service in Greymouth, New Zealand (NZPA)"/></a></p>
<p>More than 10,000 mourners have attended a national remembrance service in New Zealand for the 29 coal miners killed in an explosion at the Pike River mine.</p>
<p>A line of 29 black-draped tables each bore a fallen miner&#8217;s helmet, lamp and name.</p>
<p>Pike River mine was rocked by an explosion last month, trapping the men, including Britons Peter Rodger, 40, from Perthshire and Malcolm Campbell, 25, from St Andrews in Fife.</p>
<p>A second major blast five days later dashed hopes any of the workers had survived. The men&#8217;s bodies have still not been recovered.</p>
<p>Two more explosions have occurred since, including one on Sunday that shot flames into the air, signalling a raging underground coal fire that continues to burn.</p>
<p>The sombre, open-air service was held under a sunny sky at Greymouth&#8217;s Omoto Racecourse on South Island.</p>
<p>People across New Zealand paused for a two minute silence before the service. Flags flew at half mast on government buildings nationwide.</p>
<p>Victims&#8217; families placed photos, tributes and personal items &#8211; including clothing, a rugby ball, surfboards, a guitar and a cricket bat &#8211; alongside the miners&#8217; helmets on the tables. Men, women and children, many weeping, filed quietly past the tables to pay their respects.</p>
<p>&#8220;In a very real sense, those men are with us because of those tables,&#8221; Rev Tim Mora, who led the service, told the silent crowd.</p>
<p>Prime Minister John Key said the nation&#8217;s four million people were standing behind the region&#8217;s tight-knit community. &#8220;We hoped &#8230; they&#8217;d emerge from the depths of the Earth,&#8221; he told the mourners. &#8220;But they never came home.&#8221;</p>
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