China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, called on Saturday for a redoubled rescue mission in northern China after a gas explosion in a mine there killed at least 82 people, the Chinese state news agency said,...

The chaos in the aftermath of China's worst mine disaster in 17 years led to a revision in the death toll to 82 ​killed, local officials said at a press conference late on Saturday.

The privately owned Liushenyu mine, in the coal-belt region of Shanxi, produces mostly coking coal, meaning it would probably supply steelmakers, not power plants.