10 missing in southwest China colliery gas blast

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-15 15:07

KUNMING -- Ten people were trapped after a coal mine gas explosion Friday morning in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the local government said.

It happened around 5:50 a.m. at Chashan Coal Mine of Zhenxiong County in the city of Zhaotong.

Thirteen people were working at the time. Three had been rescued as of 11:30 a.m., a county government spokesman said.

Rescue work is continuing and the cause of the explosion is under investigation.