From Reuters, via CNN.com:
Seventeen miners were killed and dozens were missing after a blast tore through a coal mine in northern China, state media reported on Monday, adding to the country’s grim string of mining calamities.
The gas explosion hit the Jiaojiazhai mine in coal-rich Shanxi province near midday on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency said.
By late on Sunday night, rescuers had found 17 bodies and 30 were still trapped in the mineshaft, their fate unclear, the semi-official China News Service said. [Full Text]
