Death Toll Rises to 28 in N. China Gas Explosion

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Death Toll Rises to 28 in N. China Gas Explosion

A gas explosion in a coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province Saturday has so far left 28 dead and 45 missing by Sunday noon, according to sources with the provincial government.

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A gas explosion in a coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province Saturday has so far left 28 dead and 45 missing by Sunday noon, according to sources with the provincial government.

Altogether 87 miners were working underground in the Mengnanzhuang coal mine in Xiaoyi City Saturday noon when the blast happened. Fourteen people have managed to survive the disaster.

Local officials and rescue workers are busy searching for more survivors.

Tian Chengping, secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and Shanxi Governor Liu Zhenhua have rushed to the scene to direct the rescue work.

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