BEIJING, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Flood waters trapped about 20 Chinese miners in a coal pit on Sunday, state media said, in the latest of a grim series of accidents to blight the world's deadliest coal-mining industry.

The flooded mine was in Yuzhou in central Henan province, the Xinhua news agency said. It did not give any more details but it reports similar disasters on an almost daily basis.

China is the world's largest producer and consumer of coal. A total of 3,786 Chinese coal miners died in gas blasts, flooding and other accidents in 2007, down 20 percent from 2006. (Reporting by Nick Macfie; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

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