URUMQI, July 11 (Xinhuanet) -- Rescuers have found 65 corpses in acoal mine with a blast in the wee hours of Monday in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

65 miners have been confirmed dead in Xinjiang coal mine blast. (Photo: Xinhua)

    By 11:00 p.m. Monday, 18 of the 87 miners remained missing. They were working underground when the accident happened at around2:30 a.m. in Shenlong Coal Mine of Fukang County in Xinjiang.

    Four people escaped the accident, said Wang Yongzhu, deputy-director of the Xinjiang Coal Mine Safety Supervision Administration. Enditem