Image courtesy of Jakarta Post/Asian News Network
BEIJING, Sept 27 (AFP): Seventeen workers were trapped underground in a coal mine in southwest China on Sunday after it was flooded with carbon monoxide, according to a local government notice.
The mine's conveyor belt caught fire in the early hours of the morning, state news agency Xinhua cited the government as saying, which led to dangerous levels of carbon monoxide gas leaking into the mine.
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