Five miners were killed and another two were missing as a warehouse in a colliery shaft collapsed in north China's Shanxi Province, authorities said.

The accident happened at 10:45 p.m. Monday at Taoyuan Xinlong coal industrial corporation in Zhongyang County, burying seven people, according to the publicity department of the county's Party committee.

As of 7 a.m. Tuesday, five bodies had been pulled out of debris, and rescuers were searching for the missing.

(With UNI inputs)