Five miners were killed and another two were missing as a warehouse in a colliery shaft collapsed in north China's Shanxi Province, authorities said.
The accident happened at 10:45 p.m. Monday at Taoyuan Xinlong coal industrial corporation in Zhongyang County, burying seven people, according to the publicity department of the county's Party committee.
As of 7 a.m. Tuesday, five bodies had been pulled out of debris, and rescuers were searching for the missing.
(With UNI inputs)
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