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Final body recovered from flooded Shanxi colliery
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April 26, 2010, Monday
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RESCUERS have recovered the last remaining body from the Wangjialing Coal Mine, which flooded nearly a month ago in north China's Shanxi Province, bringing the death toll to 38, the rescue headquarters said today.
A spokesman for the headquarters said the body was believed to be the last victim trapped in the flooded mine.
Altogether 261 miners were working in the shaft of the coal mine, which was under construction, when the flooding happened at about 1:40 pm March 28, but only 108 were lifted unharmed to the surface.
A total of 115 miners were rescued alive April 5 after being trapped for more than a week underground.
The rescue had been obstructed by the flood water gushing from a section of the shaft, which was adjacent to a disused shaft full of water and toxic gas, said the spokesman.
Rescuers believed the disused shaft had caused the initial flood when workers broke into it.
By Monday, only three of the 115 survivors remained in hospital, and the others had been discharged, said Liu Yang, a spokesman for Shanxi's Health Bureau.
"None of the three patients suffers any life-threatening ailments. They are under medical observation, respectively, for liver problems, a skin infection and a hand neural injury," he said.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, launched an investigation April 13 into the accident.
The investigation is being led by Luo Lin, chief of the State Administration of Work Safety, with deputies from the provincial government of Shanxi, the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety, the Ministry of Supervision and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
Luo blamed the flooding on poor safety and negligence, saying the accident "should and could have been avoided."
A spokesman for the headquarters said the body was believed to be the last victim trapped in the flooded mine.
Altogether 261 miners were working in the shaft of the coal mine, which was under construction, when the flooding happened at about 1:40 pm March 28, but only 108 were lifted unharmed to the surface.
A total of 115 miners were rescued alive April 5 after being trapped for more than a week underground.
The rescue had been obstructed by the flood water gushing from a section of the shaft, which was adjacent to a disused shaft full of water and toxic gas, said the spokesman.
Rescuers believed the disused shaft had caused the initial flood when workers broke into it.
By Monday, only three of the 115 survivors remained in hospital, and the others had been discharged, said Liu Yang, a spokesman for Shanxi's Health Bureau.
"None of the three patients suffers any life-threatening ailments. They are under medical observation, respectively, for liver problems, a skin infection and a hand neural injury," he said.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, launched an investigation April 13 into the accident.
The investigation is being led by Luo Lin, chief of the State Administration of Work Safety, with deputies from the provincial government of Shanxi, the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety, the Ministry of Supervision and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
Luo blamed the flooding on poor safety and negligence, saying the accident "should and could have been avoided."
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