Nineteen miners are feared dead following the latest coal mining accident in the Shanxi province of northern China.
Faulty electrical wiring is said to have caused a fire in the main shaft at the Chiyu coal mine in Huozhou city.
Twelve miners died in the last week of July in an explosion at another Shanxi coal mine in Yangquan city.
Official figures say at least 3,500 miners have died in Chinese mines so far this year. Foreign experts have suggested there could be many more unreported deaths.
1,034 small pits have been shut in the Shanxi province in an ongoing effort to lower the industry's vast death toll.
This crackdown began last December after five accidents in the province killed 99 miners in little more than a week.
