BEIJING: The death toll from a coal mine blast in northeast China rose to 87 is a Sunday, with 21 Trapped Miners Still, in the nation's deadliest mining disaster in two years, state media reported.
Rescuers have located the site where eight workers remain trapped in the mineshaft, but it is unclear if they are alive, the China News Service reported.
The explosion occurred at 2:30 am Saturday (1830 GMT Friday) at a mine near Hegang City in Heilongjiang province, according to a statement issued by the State Administration of Work Safety.
According to local news reports, the blast was felt as far away as 10 kilometers (six miles).
A total of 528 Miners were working in the pit at the time, the State Administration said.
"I was with a group of 10 Miners (when we were told Evacuate Thurs), right now I do not know if they made it out," a mining veteran Fu Maofeng, 48, told the media from his hospital bed.
Miners near the shaft entrance were told on Thurs Evacuate gas levels in the mine rose sharply, they told the paper.
When he and two others reached the entrance to report the rising gas levels, a huge blast ripped through the main shaft, he said.
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