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Death toll climbs to 14 in Yunnan mine blast
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THE death toll from a colliery gas explosion in the early hours of today in southwest China's Yunnan Province has climbed to 14, the local government said.
The accident happened at around 12:30am in a pit of Hongtutian Coal Mine in Fuyuan County in Qujing City, the county government said in a press release.
The 14 victims were among 56 people working in the pit. The other 42 escaped without injuries, it said.
Rescuers had retrieved 13 dead bodies as of 8am, and the last one was found at around 1:20pm.
The cause of the accident is still under investigation. The county government said Hongtutian is a private mine and is properly licensed.
Qujing is a major coal production base in the east of Yunnan Province.
A mine flood on April 7 trapped 22 miners in the pit of a colliery in Qujing's outer Qilin District. As of Saturday, 21 were confirmed to have died.
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