Rescuers have found three more bodies in a coal mine in northeastern China hit by a massive gas blast,bringing the confirmed death toll to 107,a mine spokesman and state media said on Wednesday. The new toll makes Saturdays tragedy here is the deadliest reported accident in the countrys disaster-prone mining industry for more than four years. Officials had previously confirmed 104 people dead and four missing but a spokesman for the majority state-owned Xinxing mine said two bodies were recovered early today morning. We have found two of the missing people, spokesman Zhang Jinguang said. State television later reported another body had been found,leaving just one more miner missing. Officials had earlier expressed doubts that the missing miners could have survived,saying they had been working near the centre of the gas explosion. The recovery of the three bodies makes the disaster the deadliest in China since 123 people were killed when a mine in southern Guangdong province flooded in August 2005. Relatives of victims killed and hurt in Saturdays blast have angrily demanded answers about the disaster as officials said a preliminary probe pointed to poor management at the mine,one of Chinas oldest and largest.
