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Henan coal mine accident kills 24
By Jiang Zhuqing (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-04 05:56
China's mining industry suffered another black day yesterday with
confirmation of the deaths of 24 people suffocated by a build-up of gas on
Tuesday.
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| Miners, who managed to escape from a coal mine accident, avoid
photographers on a street near their mine in Wenshu Township, Yuzhou City,
central China's Henan province, August 3, 2005.
[newsphoto] | Two missing miners were rescued
yesterday from the mine in Central China's Henan Province, raising the number of
survivors to 19.
The accident occurred at about 22:30 on Tuesday when 43 miners were working
underground at the Xingfa Coal Mine in Wenshu Township under the administration
of the city of Yuzhou, an official with the General Administration of Work
Safety yesterday.
Seventeen miners managed to ascend safely from the pit.
"Five miners poisoned by the gas were hospitalized after rescue," said an
official on the scene in charge of the rescue.
According to latest data from the General Administration of Work Safety, the
nation's top watchdog for work safety, 25 serious colliery accidents, mainly gas
explosions, occurred during the first seven months of the year, killing a total
of 733 miners.
Investigation into the cause of the Xingfa accident is under way and repairs
are being carried out to the colliery's shafts, officials said.
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