2 trapped miners rescued but 10 bodies also found
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Two miners were rescued early yesterday after 10 days trapped underground by a flood but the bodies of 10 others were found later in the day.
A total of 42 workers were underground when water began pouring into the state-owned Zhengsheng coal mine on September 28. Although 30 escaped, a dozen were stuck inside, Xinhua news agency reported.
Rescue efforts in Fenyang, in the northern province of Shanxi, have been continuing ever since and the two men were retrieved in the early hours of yesterday, Xinhua added, citing the mining company’s rescue headquarters.
They were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening problems.
The bodies of the other 10 miners were recovered later, Xinhua said, adding that an investigation is under way.
Mining accidents are common in China, which is the world’s largest consumer of coal and where operators often skirt safety regulations.
In 2012, 1,384 people were killed in coal mining accidents in the country, according to official figures, down from 1,973 in 2011.
Local governments last year moved to shut more than 600 small mines Ñ which are deemed more dangerous.
But high-profile accidents have continued this year.
In May, more than 50 miners died in two accidental explosions in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces in the southwest, after a blast at a mine in the northeastern province of Jilin in March killed 28 people.
On the same day, a landslide in Tibet entombed 83 workers among two million cubic meters of earth. There were no survivors.
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