China mine explosion: Rescuers find 9 workers dead
The news follows Sunday's dramatic rescue of 11 miners, who had been trapped underground after the explosion at the mine in Hushan in the eastern Chinese province of Shadong. One more worker is still missing.
A trapped miner is lifted from a gold mine in Qixia City, east China's Shandong Province, on Sunday
It comes after Sunday's rescue of 11 gold mine workers who were part of a group of 22 trapped after an explosion at the Hushan mine in China's eastyern Shadong provice on January 10.
"From Sunday afternoon to this afternoon, rescue workers have not stopped searching, and found a further nine trapped miners who unfortunately all died," the mayor of Yantai city, Chen Fei, told journalists on Monday.