At least 11 people are dead and three are missing after a coal mine gas blast Monday in Shanxi Province, Xinhua quoted the local coal industry authority as saying. The explosion ripped through a shaft of the Xingguang Coal Industry Co. Ltd. in Jinzhong City at 11:10 a.m. when 16 miners were working underground, according to the Coal Industry Administration of Shanxi. Rescuers lifted two workers to the ground, and recovered 11 bodies. They were still searching for the missing. Officials with the administration and the provincial work safety watchdog are investigating the accident.
