Rescue workers prepare to get into the coal mine to look for survivors in north China's Shanxi Province, on February 22, 2009. More than 40 miners have died after a coal mine blast occurred at about 2:00 AM on Sunday at the Tunlan Coal Mine of Shanxi Coking Coal Group in Gujiao City near Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, while rescuers are pulling out the trapped from the shaft, according to a rescuer at the site. [Xinhua]

Rescue workers prepare to get into the coal mine to look for survivors in north China's Shanxi Province, on February 22, 2009. More than 40 miners have died after a coal mine blast in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday while rescuers are pulling out the trapped from the shaft, according to a rescuer at the site. [Xinhua]