FUXIN CITY (China): Hope faded yesterday for six coal miners missing after 209 of their colleagues were killed by a gas explosion which ripped through a pit in northeast China minutes after an earthquake.
Six more bodies were found overnight in the state-owned Sujiawan colliery here in Liaoning province but with sub-zero temperatures, the chances of finding anyone alive were fast receding, officials said.
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