Mine Blast Toll Reaches 69
<i> Associated Press</i>
MALANGAS, Philippines —
The death toll from the Philippines’ worst mining disaster rose Thursday to 69. Thirteen miners were still unaccounted for and presumed dead in Monday’s explosion in Malangas, 500 miles south of Manila.
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