China: Bodies of nine gold mine workers recovered
The bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine in China have been found, raising the death toll from the incident earlier this month to 10. A total of 22 miners working about 600 metres (2,000 feet) underground were trapped after an explosion at the Hushan mine in Qixia, a major gold-producing region in China’s coastal Shandong province, on January 10. Eleven were pulled out alive on Sunday. Mayor of Yantai City in Shandong province, Chen Fei, told a news conference that rescuers kept searching from Sunday to Monday afternoon and found nine bodies. One worker had earlier die...