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China coal mine explosion: 42 dead, 66 trapped
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 21 - 11 - 2009


The death toll following a gas explosion at a coal
mine in north-eastern China that killed 42 workers and left 66 miners
trapped underground on Saturday was expected to rise, local media
reported, according to dpa.
The explosion occurred at 2:30 am in the Xinxing mine in Hegang
City, Heilongjiang province, with 528 miners underground, the
state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing the provincial coal
mining safety watchdog.
According to Xinhua, 42 bodies had been retrieved as of Saturday
evening, a revision on a slightly higher figure provided by local
media earlier.
Another 66 miners remained trapped at a level of around 500 metres
underground, the agency said.
A report by the state broadcaster, CCTV, said at the time of the
explosion an evacuation was under way after a warning about gas
levels in the shaft.
Residents in Hegang, 10 kilometres from the mine site, said they
had felt the blast, the semi-official China News Service reported.
Staff at the general management office of the Xinxing mine and the
Hegang mining bureau administration office would not provide further
details about the accident, when contacted by the German Press Agency
dpa.
The Hegang central hospital said they had sent doctors to the
scene.
The blast comes at a time when the central government is trying to
reform China"s notoriously dangerous mining industry, by closing
illegal mines which have poor safety and environmental records. Mine
owners across the board regularly flout safety regulations in order
to increase production.
Authorities have already closed 120,000 illegal coal mines since
2005, and are due to shut down another 4,000 by 2010, the government-
run China Daily reported.
In Shanxi province, another coal mining hub, the government is
also attempting to rein in the industry by closing small and medium
sized mines, and reducing the overall number of mines through
mergers.
However, this latest accident is a reminder that there are ongoing
safety concerns at even large state-owned mines.
China"s official mining death toll was 3,215 last year, but
industry analysts suspect the actual figure to be higher due to
under-reporting.


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