Another corpse was found on Wednesday from a coal mine in Fuxin City, northeast China's Liaoning province, where a gas explosion occurred on Monday, bringing the death toll to 210, rescuers told Xinhua.
Five miners were still missing by press time.
A source with the headquarters in charge of rescue work said earlier Wednesday that 29 miners were injured.
The gas blast occurred at about 3:00 PM Monday, about 242 meters underground in Sunjiawan colliery.
Three hundred and thirty out of the 574 miners on duty escaped, and 244 miners were trapped beneath the shaft.
The Sunjiawan colliery has 3,100 workers and two coal mines. The Haizhou coal mine, the one where the disaster took place, produces 1.5 million tons of coal annually.
Separately, a coal mine explosion killed at least five in Fuyuan County in southwest China's Yunnan Province Tuesday, leaving 17 miners missing.
The explosion occurred at an illegal coal mine in Songlin Village in Zhuyuan Township at about 4:10 PM and 15 miners were injured, said Xu Jian'an, deputy director of Yunnan Provincial Administration on Coal Mine Safety.
Rescuers are searching for the 17 missing. Further investigation is still underway.
(Xinhua News Agency February 16, 2005)
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