Beijing: At least 18 people have been killed and six injured at a coal mine blast in a central Chinese province.
The detonator and dynamite warehouse explosion at the coal mine in remote mountainous Hunan province on Friday left two missing also, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
The building was almost flattened by the blast, with a truck 50 meters away bent out of shape. Police are investigating whether explosives were stored illegally in the warehouse at the Daling mine in Yongxing county.
One shareholder of the mine is already "under police control," state-run CCTV reported, and authorities are seeking the other owners.
The communist nation has promised for years to improve mine safety, but China's mining industry remains the world's deadliest.
A blast at the Tunlan coal mine in northern China's Shanxi province killed 77 people in this year in February.
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