Shanghai Daily news

A gas blast killed five coal miners and trapped 20 others in Hancheng, northwestern Shaanxi Province, on Thursday while police in the northeast arrested 10 mine officials for a flood that has left 25 missing.
An explosion rocked the Hancheng coal mine at 9:15pm on Thursday, trapping 32 miners, the provincial government said yesterday.
About 20 minutes later, three of them escaped from the mine.
Rescuers yesterday saved four miners and recovered the bodies of five others. Two of the saved workers suffered minor injuries.
The private Shangyukou Coal Mine in Xihan Village, which started operation in 1992, produces 60,000 tons of coal annually. It has about 60 employees.
In jiaohe City, northeastern Jilin Province, police on Thursday detained five officials of the Tengda coal mine that was flooded on April 24 and five others at the Ji'an colliery where the flooding reportedly originated.
Sixty-nine workers were trapped in the mishap, of whom 39 were rescued. On Wednesday, five workers were found dead in the Tengda mine. The chances of survival for the rest 25 are very slim, according to sources.
Rescue work was being hampered because of increasing toxic and inflammable gases in the shaft. In addition, long-time soaking has put the shaft in danger of caving in, officials said.
In another mishap, five workers were rescued on Thursday, 60 hours after they were trapped in a coal mine flooding in Xinshao County, Hunan Province.
Sixteen miners were working in the Tangbian colliery when the accident occurred on Tuesday morning. Eleven of them fled.