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Death toll in China mine disaster rises to 87: media

The death toll from a coal mine blast in northeast China rose to 87 on Sunday, with 21 miners still trapped, in the nation's deadliest mining disaster in two years, state media reported. ...full story at Sydney Morning Hearld

from Sydney Morning Hearld on Sun, Nov 22 2009

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