A gas blast killed 11 people at a coal mine in northern China on Sunday, state media reported, in the latest accident to hit the country's mining industry.

A total of 21 miners were working underground when the blast struck at the Tianyu coal mine in Tongchuan City, Shaanxi province, a spokesman for the city government was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news agency.

Chinese state media said an explosion in a coal mine killed at least 13 workers.

The company that owns a mine where a man died on Tuesday is in court this week to answer charges it failed to prevent the death of another man at the same pit in 2008, the Financial Times has learn

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Three coal miners including the owner of the mine died in remote Siju area of South Garo Hills after inhaling toxic fumes while attempting to extract the mineral, a delayed report said.

TURA: An attempt to extract coal from a used mine shaft in Siju area of South Garo Hills proved disastrous for a group of locals when three of them reportedly lost their lives after inhaling toxic fumes deep inside the coal pit several hundred feet below the surface of the ground. Among the dead was the owner of the mine.

Twenty-two coal miners were rescued Tuesday from their flooded pit in northeastern China after being trapped underground for a week.

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In the wake of recent accidents at mining sites in Goa due to heavy rains, a revised set of safety norms would be issued to the mines that will have to be complied with during monsoon, a senior off