Rescue personnel wait beside parked ambulances outside the Diaoshuidong coal mine in southwestern China's Chongqing after a carbon monoxide leak at the facility left 23 dead, with rescue efforts under way to reach five others still trapped underground on Sunday (Dec 6, 2020). - AFP
BEIJING, Dec 6 (dpa): The number of people killed in an accident at a coal mine in Chongqing in south-western China has risen to 23, state media reported on Sunday after rescue operations concluded.
The victims were killed by a carbon monoxide leak. But one survivor was successfully recovered, the government news agency Xinhua said.
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