In this file photo dated June 10, 2021, rescuers drain water from the iron mine after a flooding accident trapped 13 workers in Daixian county, North China's Shanxi province. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

TAIYUAN — Five miners were killed and another two missing as a warehouse in a colliery shaft collapsed in north China's Shanxi province, authorities said.

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The accident happened at 10:45 pm Monday at Taoyuan Xinlong coal industrial corporation in Zhongyang county, burying seven people, according to the publicity department of the county's Party committee.

As of 7 am Tuesday, five bodies had been pulled out of debris and rescuers were searching for the missing.