BEIJING: Dozens of people remained missing on Friday following a collapse at a coal mine in northern China that killed six, state media reported.

A rescue operation involving hundreds of workers was ongoing after a 180-meter-high slope gave way at the open-pit mine in the Inner Mongolia region's Alxa Left Banner area on Wednesday.

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