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![China's mine industry is the deadliest in the world, killing 13 people every day [Reuters]](http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/China/1/2/mine-toll.jpg "China's mine industry is the deadliest in the world, killing 13 people every day [Reuters]") | | China's mine industry is the deadliest in the world, killing 13 people every day [Reuters] |
Three more bodies have been found after a gas leak at a China mine, bringing the toll from Thursday's accident to 32.
Another three coal miners are missing and presumed dead in the latest such accident to hit the country's deadly industry.
"Thirty-two dead and three missing are the latest figures," an official with the Guizhou Provincial Coal Mine Safety Bureau said.
The three latest bodies were found on Friday morning at the Qunli mine in Nayong county in Guizhou province.
The cause of the gas leak was not immediately known. The government warned recently that China's mining industry, the most dangerous in the world, would likely see more accidents as output was boosted to provide heating fuel for the winter months.
China's coal mines average 13 deaths a day in fires, explosions and floods, despite government efforts to improve safety.
In August, 181 miners died when two mines flooded in eastern Shandong province after heavy rains.
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