China coal mine blast

Rescue workers have found the bodies of 59 miners killed in a gas explosion in a northern Chinese coal mine, and were still searching for 10 miners trapped underground, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. Two miners were rescued after...

Rescue workers have found the bodies of 59 miners killed in a gas explosion in a northern Chinese coal mine, and were still searching for 10 miners trapped underground, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday.

Two miners were rescued after Saturday's blast at the Xishui Colliery near the city of Shuozhou in Shanxi province, a major coal-producing region, the China News Service said.

Police detained four owners of the mine after the latest tragedy to strike the world's deadliest mining industry for disregarding an order in November to suspend production due to safety problems, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

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