At least 74 people are estimated to have been trapped and 40
others were killed after a gas blast in a colliery on the early
hours of Thursday in north China's Shanxi Province as rescuers have
saved 13 miners from the pit, the China News Service reports.
The accident took place in Zuomu village, Hongtong county in the
city of Linfen.
Further details were not immediately available.
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(CRI December 6, 2007)