One miner was killed and 19 more trapped in a slurry collapse at a coal mine in Qinghai province in northwest China on Saturday, local authorities said.
The accident happened at one of the coal mines in the Gagtsa district of the Haibei-Tibet Autonomous Region at about noon, when there were only 21 miners in the face, the local specialized department specified.
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Thanks to the efforts of the rescuers, two of them were raised to the surface. Unfortunately, the life of one miner could not be saved.
