Coal mine blast in N China kills 23
Ap, Beijing
A blast at a state-owned coalmine in northern China killed 23 workers and injured 53 others, the government said yesterday. The blast occurred Wednesday at the Sihe Coal Mine in China's Shanxi province, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The injured were suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. One of them was in critical condition. The report said the Sihe Coal Mine, which is a subsidiary of the state-owned Jincheng Mining Group, is one of the largest collieries in Shanxi Province and produces about 11 million tons of coal a year.
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