Twenty people were killed in an explosion in a tunnel in Central China on Saturday, Xinhua reported. One body has been recovered.
The explosion happened when a vehicle carrying explosives was being unloaded in the tunnel that has a designed length of 2,355 meters.
Twenty-four people were at work in the Bamianshan tunnel, being built for the Yanling-Rucheng expressway, when the blast occurred.
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