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Coal mine collapses in northern China, killing at least 21

BEIJING, Jan 13: Twenty-one coal miners were killed when a mine collapsed in northern China, state media reported Sunday.
By Associated Press

BEIJING, Jan 13: Twenty-one coal miners were killed when a mine collapsed in northern China, state media reported Sunday.


The disaster occurred Saturday in Shenmu in Shaanxi province in the heart of the country’s coal-mining belt, according to state TV and the Xinhua News Agency.


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Sixty-six other miners were rescued, the city government said in a statement.


The number of fatalities reported in cave-ins, explosions and other disasters in Chinese coal mines has fallen sharply over the past decade, but the industry still is the world’s deadliest.

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