At least 66 miners have died and another 17 were missing after an explosion in a coal mine in northwest China, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Four people survived the blast, which struck the Shenlong Coal Mine in Xinjang Uygur province at 2:38 a.m. (2:38 p.m. Sunday ET), the agency reported on Tuesday. "The remains of the 66 miners killed in the gas blast have been hoisted to the ground," Reuters news agency quoted Yu Zhengui, deputy secretary-general of the Xinjiang government, as saying, adding the chance of finding the missing 17 alive was slim.