35 Die as Explosion Rips Through Coal Mine
From Times Wire Reports
An explosion in a coal mine in northern China killed 35 workers, state media and a local official said. The blast ripped through the mine in Linfen, a city in Shanxi province, about 380 miles southwest of Beijing, the New China News Agency reported.
The agency said 49 miners were in the shaft at the time, and 13 of them had been rescued. One miner was still missing.
China’s mines are the world’s deadliest. Last year, 6,702 people were killed in coal mine accidents, government statistics show.
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