17 killed in China twin mine mishaps
PTI
BEIJING, JULY 31
At least 17 workers were killed and 24 others trapped in twin mine accidents in China today, as military personnel made frantic efforts to recover some 2,000 of the 7,000 barrels containing explosive chemicals washed away by floods.
At least 17 workers were killed and 20 others injured today when a powerful explosion ripped through a dormitory area of a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province, local authorities said.
The blast occurred at the Liugou Coal Mine in Linfen city of Yicheng county and the casualty figure could rise further, said a senior official of Yangquan Coal Industry (Group) Co. Ltd, which owns the mine.
In another mine disaster tonight, 24 miners were trapped in a flooded coal mine in Hengshan district’s Jixi city of northeast China’s Heilongjiang province.
Frantic efforts were being made to rescue them, official media here said.
Hundreds of people die every year in mine accidents in China.