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Rescue service helper during a mining accident in 2019
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At least twelve miners died in two mining accidents within one day in China.
Four other workers were still missing, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The first of the two accidents occurred on Monday around 12 p.m. in a coal mine in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui.
A gas explosion there killed seven people, Xinhua reports.
The explosion occurred in a coal mine when 24 miners were working in the shaft.
Two miners were still missing.
Five dead after camp collapses
The second accident occurred late Monday evening in northern China's Shanxi province, where five miners were killed when a warehouse in a coal shaft collapsed, according to the state agency.
Two workers were still missing there too.
A month earlier, the local supervisory authority, which is responsible for safety in mining, had issued a notice asking the mines to reduce overproduction in order to avoid accidents.
In China there are always serious accidents in mines with many fatalities.
This is often due to poor security measures.
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