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15 dead in SW 皇冠体育app mine gas leak

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-08-03 19:38

Rescuers carry the body of a miner who died in a gas outburst at the Mingyang Coal Mine in Changgang township, Renhuai city, Southwest 皇冠体育app's Guizhou province, August 3, 2010.[Photo/Xinhua]

GUIYANG - The death toll from a coal mine gas leak in southwest 皇冠体育app's Guizhou Province Tuesday has risen to 15, but one miner is still missing, rescuers said.

The latest investigation showed that 59 miners, rather than the 60 reported earlier, were working underground when the accident happened at the Mingyang Coal Mine in Changgang Township, Renhuai City, at around 9:30 am, a spokesman with the rescue headquarters said Tuesday.

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Forty-three managed to escape or were rescued.

Seventeen miners were taken to hospital after inhaling toxic gas, and two were described as seriously ill, the spokesman said.

Rescuers are still searching for the last trapped miner, he said.

Mingyang Coal Mine is a licensed private coal mine with a production capacity of 90,000 tonnes per year.