At least 90 workers have been killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in Qinyuan county, Shanxi, with 247 miners underground at the time.
The site was flagged by China’s National Mine Safety Administration this year for high gas levels.
Al Jazeera’s Laura Khan reports.
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