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Colliery blast, fire leave 3 dead, 6 missing in Hunan
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-09 16:07
Three miners were confirmed dead and six others missing in gas blast that led
to a fire in a coal mine in Shaodong County, central China's Hunan Province,
early Thursday.
Rescuers had recovered the bodies of three miners by 11:30 a.m.and they were
searching for the six missing miners.
The blast occurred at 5:18 a.m. in the Shuijingtou Coal Mine inShaodong
County, 200 kilometers from the provincial capital of Changsha. Two miners
escaped and another one was rescued out of the coal mine later.
The blast happened at a workface of the Shuijingtou Coal Mine, and the fire
following the gas blast hampered the rescue efforts, said Li Lianshan, director
of Hunan Provincial Coal Industry Bureau.
Investigation into the cause of the blast is still under way.
Shuijingtou Coal Mine belongs to the state-owned Lianshao Mining Group Co.,
Ltd., which boasts ten pairs of shafts with a combined annual production
capacity of over 1.7 million tons. Shuijingtou Coal Mine has an annual output
capacity of 150,000 tons. It generated 120,000 tons of coal last year.
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