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.
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.
