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25 die in coalmine blast

TAIYUAN (CHINA): Twenty-five persons have been confirmed dead and nine others are still missing in a deadly coal mine accident in China's Shanxi Province. Thirty-six miners were working underground when privately made explosives stored in a pit of the Nanshan Colliery in Wangyu Village of Lingshi county, caught fire on Sunday, sources with rescue headquarters said on Monday. The Lingshi county government received its first report of the accident at 4 a.m. on Monday. Two miners survived but 25 others were suffocated by the quantities of poisonous gas released by the explosives. — Xinhua

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