Thursday, June 01, 2006
Flood in China Coal Mine Traps 44 Miners
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Spiral Crop CirclePosted: 2005-08-22
by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Joe McDonald - Associated Press).
BEIJING — An underground flood trapped 44 miners in a coal mine in northern China, and nine mine managers were detained after apparently trying to conceal the scale of the disaster, the government said Sunday. The flood Thursday in the Xinjing Coal Mine in Shanxi province was the biggest accident so far this year in China's disaster-plagued mining industry, which suffers thousands of deaths annually, state television said. A 200-member rescue team was searching for the missing miners, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It didn't say how many were believed to be alive. Mine managers failed to report the true size of the disaster, saying only five miners were missing, Xinhua said. "In this sense, the actual situation of the accident was covered up," Xinhua said,...
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Spiral Crop CirclePosted: 2005-08-22
by Ninja T. Penguin Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Joe McDonald - Associated Press).
BEIJING — An underground flood trapped 44 miners in a coal mine in northern China, and nine mine managers were detained after apparently trying to conceal the scale of the disaster, the government said Sunday. The flood Thursday in the Xinjing Coal Mine in Shanxi province was the biggest accident so far this year in China's disaster-plagued mining industry, which suffers thousands of deaths annually, state television said. A 200-member rescue team was searching for the missing miners, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It didn't say how many were believed to be alive. Mine managers failed to report the true size of the disaster, saying only five miners were missing, Xinhua said. "In this sense, the actual situation of the accident was covered up," Xinhua said,...
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