Rescue teams in China have recovered the bodies of 10 workers killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.
Officials at the mine, near the city of Jixi in northern China, said another worker was still missing.
The Lixin mine was being run illegally and should have been closed for safety checks at the time of the blast, state media said.
The accident is the latest in a long list of tragedies which have made Chinese mines the deadliest in the world. In June, 115 workers were killed at another mine in Jixi, the fourth deadliest accident in the country’s history.
More than 3,500 workers have been killed so far this year in Chinese mines. State media said about 7,000 were killed last year.
In early August, eight miners were confirmed dead after two days of rescue efforts failed at a flooded coal mine in the central province of Henan.
In other news, one man was found alive from a mine shaft in northern Shanxi province, where he had been trapped underground by a fire.
Eighteen of his co-workers died.
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