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BEIJING, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Nine miners were killed and 13 trapped underground in a coal mine collapse in China's southwestern municipality of Chongqing, a local official said on Friday.

The collapse at the state-owned Nantong Coal Mine on Thursday afternoon also injured six miners and one of them was in serious condition, a mine spokeswoman told Reuters by telephone.

"We are doing everything we can to rescue those still trapped," the spokeswoman said. She said it was unclear if they had any chance of survival.

The collapse, caused by build up of gas between layers of coal, caused more than 2,000 tonnes of coal to fall into the shaft, the official Xinhua news agency said.

China has the world's biggest, and deadliest, mining industry. More than 5,000 mining deaths were officially reported in 2001. 

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