17 killed, 24 trapped in twin mine accidents in China
PTI | 10:07 PM,Jul 31,2010K J M Varma Beijing, Jul 31 (PTI) 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 due to lack of proper implementation of safety measures.Meanwhile, the death toll in yesterday's explosion at a taxation office in Changsha city, the capital of central China's Hunan Province, has risen to four. Nineteen people were also injured in the incident, local police said.The explosion took place in the third floor of a branch of Furong district's taxation office on Hengda road near a downtown residential block, according to a statement from the police.Initial investigations showed that the explosion was a planned attack, said police, which sealed off the building and blocked nearby roads.Also Chinese military personnel managed to retrieve 5,016 of the 7,000 chemical barrels that were swept into a major river in northeast China's Jilin province.Authorities said it was still not immediately clear how many of the retrieved barrels contained chemicals, official Xinhua reported today.Some 3,000 full barrels and 4,000 empty ones were swept into the Wende river and on to the Songhua river after floods hit warehouses of two chemical factories in Jilin province's Jilin city early Wednesday.
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