QITAIHE, Heilongjiang, Dec. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Rescuers on Monday night found remains of the last miner killed in the major coal mine blast taking place late last month in Titaihe, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, sources from rescue headquarters said.

    By press time, altogether 171 miners were confirmed dead. The killed included 169 miners working underground and two others working on the ground generator room.

    The blast went off at 9:40 p.m. last Sunday at the Dongfeng Coal Mine run by the Qitaihe branch of the Longmei Mining (Group) Co., Ltd. in Heilongjiang.

    Latest figures said that 242 miners were working underground when the explosion occurred, but only 73 of them escaped the site of the blast or were saved. Enditem