Shandong [China], January 11 (ANI): Twenty-two miners are trapped following an explosion at a local gold mine in east China's Shandong on Monday.

"22 miners are trapped underground following an explosion at a local gold mine in Qixia in Yantai, East China's Shandong. Contact has not yet been made with the workers: local authority," Global Times said on Twitter.

Further details are awaited. (ANI)

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