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Coal mine blast in China kills 15 workers

A gas explosion inside a coal mine in northern China’s Shanxi has killed 15 miners and injured nine, authorities said on November 19. The national safety regulator blamed the accident on mine management’s ‘greed’ and neglect. The nine injured miners are now being treated in hospital after they were rescued from the site.

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