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74 miners dead; 96 missing in China coal mine explosion
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by Amy Judd | February 21, 2009 at 05:02 pm
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The death toll has risen to 74 from the explosion.
The men who were trapped inside contaced many of their loved ones by mobile phone.
Out of the 426 miners working in the mine, at least 74 miners are dead, 96 missing and 114 injured after a gas explosion at a China coal mine in the Shanxi province. The name of the coal mine is Shanxi Jiaomei Group's Dunlan mine in Gujiao City, which is located near Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province.
Most of the miners are suffering from carbon monxide poisoning.
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96 miners have been trapped underground when a gas explosion occured in a coal mine in Northern China. 436 miners were working underground at the time, but it thought that most of them got out just in time.
The blast happened at 2:00am in Shanxi province.
According to an initial check, 96 miners were trapped underground.
Zhang Baoshun, the provincial Communist Party committee chief, and Provincial Governor Wang Jun have rushed to the mine.
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at 05:48 on February 22nd, 2009
Is almost a quarterly event in China in recent years.
at 07:59 on February 22nd, 2009
The death toll has risen to 74.
at 09:52 on February 22nd, 2009
sad story
at 10:29 on February 23rd, 2009
Having recently experienced mine disasters in North America, we can identify with the pain associated with the waiting and the discovery.
at 21:02 on February 23rd, 2009
Historically speaking, in the 19th century the mines of the USA were hell. Thanks to the amazing work of the United Mine Workers and technology and the emerging good sense of some mine owners (the good sense having been beaten into them in a series of strikes), the mines became much safer.
Strangely enough, in the Worker's Paradises of the Soviet Union and even of today's China, safety standards are nowhere near what we have in good ol' capitalist USA. This is not to say that we have perfection, by the way. That last collapse seemed to be caused by mining management's attitude.
I wish some of the lefties could explain that because it confuses me, but I think that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely and the elites of the Soviet Union and Red China have close to absolute power and there is no accountability.
Hence, their coal mines are very dangerous.
at 18:49 on February 24th, 2009
An important story. What a horrible way to die. There are so many deaths in the mines each year. But it used to be pretty bad in Britain when we had a mining industry.