BBC at the site of China's worst mining disaster in more than a decade

At slightest 82 radical person been killed and 2 are missing aft a ember excavation blast successful bluish China, officials person said.

The state detonation astatine the Liushenyu Coal Mine is the worst mining catastrophe successful China since 2009, and Chinese President Xi Jinping said nary effort indispensable beryllium spared successful the hunt and rescue operation.

Early connected Sunday morning, rescuers deployed excavation inspection robots underground, equipped with state sensors and infrared cameras, authorities media reported.

The BBC's China analogous Stephen McDonell is astatine the country of the blast successful Shanxi province.

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