![Rescuers are seen walking out of the entrance of the coal mine in Fuyuan County in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Dec 5, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]](U470P886T1D39104F12DT20121206091119.jpg "Rescuers are seen walking out of the entrance of the coal mine in Fuyuan County in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Dec 5, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]")
Rescuers are seen walking out of the entrance of the coal mine in Fuyuan County in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Dec 5, 2012. [Photo/Xinhua]
Seventeen people have been confirmed dead after a coal mine accident in Fuyuan County in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday, according to the local government.
At 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, an accident of coal and gas outburst happened in a shaft of the Shangchang Coal Mine in Huangnihe township of Fuyuan, said the press office of the county government.
Sixty-six miners were underground when the mishap occurred and 49 of them escaped unscathed from the mine, according to preliminary investigation.
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