Colleagues wait for information of trapped miners at Xinxing coal mine following a gas explosion at the mine in Hegang, Heilongjiang Province November 22, 2009. The death toll from China's latest coal mine disaster reached 87 as hopes dimmed on Sunday that more survivors would be found a day after a gas blast at a colliery in the country's far northeast. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA DISASTER ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)
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