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State TV says gas blast kills 46 in northern China coal
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 06 - 12 - 2007


A gas blast at a coal mine in northern
China killed at least 46 people Thursday and left another
50 missing, AP quoted the state television sas saying.
The explosion occurred at the Rui Zhiyuan coal mine in
Hongtong county near the city of Linfen in Shanxi province,
China Central Television said.
It did not give any details about how many workers had
escaped or how many were in the mine at the time.
The State Administration for Work Safety said 40 bodies
had been recovered and 74 were still trapped. Another 13
had been rescued, it said.
It was not immediately clear why the figures were
different, but mine safety regulations are often loosely
enforced, making it difficult to track how many people are
working in a shaft. Mining companies, for example, often
send in more miners than allowed in order to extract as
much coal as possible to meet the country's voracious
energy needs.
Telephones at the Linfen Administration for Work Safety
and a local hospital rang unanswered.
The state work safety administration said the mine was
properly licensed, was owned by the local government and
had an annual output capacity of 210,000 tons of coal.
It said the mine's managers were being questioned by
police and that its bank account had been frozen.
China's coal mining industry is the most dangerous in the
world, averaging 13 deaths a day from fires, explosions and
floods. In August, 181 miners died when heavy rains flooded
two mines in eastern Shandong province.
Meanwhile, 11 people were trapped after a roof collapsed
in an iron- and gold-ore mine in Chengde in Hebei province,
also in northern China, the official Xinhua News Agency
said.
It said the accident in the private mine happened Monday
but was not reported to officials until Thursday. It did
not give the fate of the miners.
Xinhua reported separately that 12 people died of gas
poisoning in the Xinjiang region in northwestern China.
It said the poisoning happened in an outdoor tent that was
being used by workers who were digging for licorice root, a
medicinal herb used in traditional Chinese medicine.


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