周二晚上发生的重庆煤矿事故确认已致22人死亡，地方当局说。救援人员已经找到了所有失踪人员的尸体。事故于凌晨5：40分发生在万盛区砚石台煤矿井。
CHonGQING -- Twenty-two people are confirmed dead after a coal mine accident on Tuesday evening in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, local authorities said.
Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of all the missing miners, the authorities said.
The accident happened at 5:40 pm at the Yanshitai Coal Mine in Wansheng District, according to the Chongqing Municipal Administration of Coal Mine Safety, which said it was a "gas incident."
A total of 28 miners were working down the shaft at the time of the accident, it said. Six of them managed to escape, with two injured in the process.
The coal mine belongs to the state-owned Nantong Mining Co, Ltd, which is the largest coal producer in Chongqing.
