One more body was recovered on Sunday after a coal mine gas
outburst in northwest China's Gansu Province, bringing the death toll to
three, local authorities said.
The accident took place at about 11 PM Friday at Yaojie Town of
Lanzhou, provincial capital, when 10 miners were working
underground at a mine owned by the Jinhe Coal Company.
Rescuers found three miners Saturday, two of whom died of gas
poisoning while the third is under treatment in a local
hospital.
A local official said that chances of survival for the six
missing miners are "very slim."
Rescue work was hampered by high density of gas underground and
coal and earth blocking the tunnels.
(Xinhua News Agency April 9, 2007)