Thirty-four miners were trapped in a coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province on Monday, after a mine blast at the Nanshan Colliery in the village of Wangyu in Lingshi County.
Rescuers found 24 dead bodies and are still searching for the other 10.
A spokesman of the Lingshi County Government said the accident was caused by improper use of explosives that led to combustion in the pit.
Also on Monday, the death toll climbed to 35 in the pit of the Jiaojiazhai Colliery in Xinzhou, where a gas blast trapped 47 miners on November 5.
In another accident, six miners died and two others were missing after a colliery flooded in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Sunday, Xinhua reported.
