BEIJING: At least 18 people were killed and two more missing after an explosion Tuesday in a Chinese coal mine, state media reported, the latest disaster in the country's notoriously dangerous mines.

A gas explosion ripped through the colliery in the northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Tuesday morning.

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