Three people were confirmed dead in a roof fall accident at a coal mine in central China's Hunan Province, local sources said late Monday. The accident occurred at 3 p.m. Monday at Dingli Coal Mine in Jiahe County, trapping three workers who were conducting repair work in the shaft, Xinhua quoted the spokesman with the county government as saying. By 6 p.m., the bodies of the three had been recovered, and the cause of the accident is under investigation.
