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Death toll from NE China mine explosion hits 108

Rescuers on Friday found the corpse of the last miner missing in the coal mine blast in northeast China, bringing the death toll to 108. Full story

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NE China colliery explosion

The blast happened at around 2:30 a.m. Saturday at the Xinxing Coal Mine under the state-owned Heilongjiang Longmei Mining Holding Group's subsidiary in Hegang City.

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2009-11-27 11:07:11 GMT Xinhua English HEGANG, Heilongjiang, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers on Friday found the corpse of the last miner missing in the coal mine blast in northeast China, bringing the death toll to 108, the investigation authority said.

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2009-11-25 06:23:21 GMT Xinhua English HEGANG, Heilongjiang, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- One more body was retrieved from shaft Wednesday noon, bringing the death toll of the deadly coal mine blast in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province to 107, local authorities said Wednesday afternoon.

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2009-11-25 02:17:25 GMT Xinhua English HEGANG,Heilongjiang, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from the deadly coal mine blast in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province rose to 106 with two more bodies retrieved Wednesday morning, said local authorities.

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