A man walks across a road crack in Xingtai County, Hebei Province, yesterday. Rescuers found 12 survivors and four more bodies, pushing up the death toll in three gypsum mine cave-ins in Shangwang Village to 31. Five other people were still missing.—Xinhua

Mine disasters in Hebei and Shanxi provinces and the Xinjiang region claimed at least 58 lives over three days in the latest calamities in China's disaster-plagued mining industry.
The toll was rising and at least eight people were reported missing.
In hebei Province, the death toll rose to 31 in three related gypsum mine collapses in Xingtai, the government said.
Five people were still missing and 33 others injured, according to the rescue center.
The accident occurred on Sunday night at one mine and spread to two others.
The cave-ins also caused deaths in nearby housing.
The city ordered all mines to overhaul safety procedures.
Meanwhile, a coal mine explosion early yesterday killed at least 11 miners and injured 14 others in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Three miners were missing in the Beitashan Coal Mine, 400 kilometers northeast of the capital of Urumqi.
The blast occurred when 500 kilograms of dynamite stored in a room near the mine exploded.
And in Shanxi Province, a violation of safety rules was blamed for a colliery blast on Sunday that killed 16 people at the Taiping Coal Mine in Qingxu County.
(Xinhua)