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TAIYUAN, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Four people have been confirmed dead and two others are still trapped as of Tuesday morning after a tunnel under construction collapsed in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities said Tuesday.
The accident occurred at around 4 p.m. Monday at a tunnel on a highway in the city of Jincheng, trapping six people who were working on the site, according to the city's publicity authorities.
One of them was rescued and sent to a nearby hospital but died later Monday, while rescuers retrieved the bodies of another three victims from the collapsed tunnel as of 7:50 a.m. Tuesday.
An estimated 200 cubic meters of debris was blocking the tunnel. The search and rescue efforts are under way. ■
