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Rescuers save 7 trapped gold miners, 16 die in fire
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August 7, 2010, Saturday
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RESCUERS lifted the last group of seven miners to the ground this noon at a Shandong gold mine where an underground blaze initially trapped more than 300.
Sixteen miners have been confirmed dead in the accident in the eastern Chinese province.
Most of the dead miners were suffocated in the overwhelming toxic smoke underground. Some of them died in hospital, said medical workers at Luoshan gold mine in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province.
A sudden fire broke out inside the Luoshan mine at about 5pm yesterday when 329 miners were working underground, local officials said.
The rescue authorities initially reported that eight remained trapped but later corrected the figure to seven.
Dozens of the injured had been hospitalized.
An initial investigation showed that the fire was likely caused by an underground cable. The owner of the mine had been taken into police custody, a spokesman with the rescue headquarters said.
Luo Lin, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, led a 10-member work-team to Zhaoyuan today. Previously, top provincial officials had arrived at the scene to oversee the rescue and the investigation.
Sixteen miners have been confirmed dead in the accident in the eastern Chinese province.
Most of the dead miners were suffocated in the overwhelming toxic smoke underground. Some of them died in hospital, said medical workers at Luoshan gold mine in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province.
A sudden fire broke out inside the Luoshan mine at about 5pm yesterday when 329 miners were working underground, local officials said.
The rescue authorities initially reported that eight remained trapped but later corrected the figure to seven.
Dozens of the injured had been hospitalized.
An initial investigation showed that the fire was likely caused by an underground cable. The owner of the mine had been taken into police custody, a spokesman with the rescue headquarters said.
Luo Lin, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, led a 10-member work-team to Zhaoyuan today. Previously, top provincial officials had arrived at the scene to oversee the rescue and the investigation.
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