Nine Chinese miners have been found dead in Shandong province, BBC reported.

Earlier, 11 of their colleagues have been rescued in Shandong province. Miners were trapped at the Hushan mine when the tunnel entrance collapsed after the January 10 explosion.

According to Yantai city mayor, one miner remains unaccounted for.

"From Sunday afternoon to this afternoon, rescue workers have not stopped searching, and found a further nine trapped miners who unfortunately all died," Yantai Mayor Chen Fei told a briefing.

He noted on Monday that "along with one miner who died on Thursday, the bodies of the nine deceased miners were all lifted out of the mine."