Twelve workers are dead after a fire broke out at a coalmine in China's eastern Jiangxi Province.<br /><br />Early investigations into the accident at the Miaoshang Coal Mine in Xinyu City point to a short circuit of underground cables.<br /><br />Rescuers say 14 miners were working underground when the fire started. Only two of the workers managed to escape.<br /><br />A wooden supporting structure in the mine caught fire causing harmful gases and a tunnel collapse. <br /><br />Police are looking for the mine head and other executives who fled after the accident.<br /><br />Lax safety standards and strong demand for resources have made China's mines the most dangerous in the world.<br /><br />Last Tuesday 25 people died in another coalmine fire in central China's Hunan Province.
