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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have shut down a state-owned colliery in northeast China and detained top officials after 164 miners died in an explosion, state media reported on Thursday. State-owned Dongfeng coal mine run by a branch of the Heilongjiang Longmei Mining (Group) Co. Ltd., a conglomerate of four major coal firms in northeastern Heilongjiang province, was hit by a blast late on Sunday. The coal mine operator and the party chief of the Dongfeng coal mine were...