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74 killed in China mine blast

— Photo: Xinhua

Mining disaster: Rescue workers carrying the body of a victim at the site of a coal mine accident in China’s Shanxi Province on Sunday.

GUJIAO: A blast in one of north China’s coal mines on Sunday killed 74 people, the rescue headquarters said.

Rescuers said that among the 114 hospitalised miners, six were in a critical condition.

The accident occurred at 2:17 a.m. on Sunday while 436 miners were working underground at the Tunlan Coal Mine of Shanxi Coking Coal Group in Gujiao City, about 50 km from Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province.

Xue Huancheng (27), a hospitalised worker, told Xinhua the workers started choking after the accident occurred. Most of the miners suffered carbon monoxide poisoning, according to doctors at a nearby hospital. A rescuer said relatives of some of the trapped miners had received cell phone calls from the mine after the accident.— Xinhua

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