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China blast kills 15 miners, 18 missing: state media


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Fifteen miners are confirmed dead and 18 missing after a coal mine explosion in southwest China Monday, state media reported, the latest mining disaster in the country. More than 200 rescue workers including firefighters, armed police and mine experts are searching shafts at the Jinshangou mine in the town of Laisu in the Chongqing Municipality's Yongchuan district, Xinhua news agency reported. It said 35 miners were working underground when the gas explosion ripped through the mine in the morning and just two managed to escape.

 

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