No Light at the End of the Tunnel
The State Coal Mine Safety Supervision Bureau (SCMSSB) has announced that the rescue operation at the Wufu mine near Xuzhou city, Jiangsu province has been formally ended. The bureaus website says that 92 bodies have been recovered, but makes no mention of earlier conflicting reports on the number of people involved in the accident - 105 or 106. Some agencies reported that 13 people were rescued whilst others claimed 16 miners were brought to the surface alive. CLB has not been able to confirm these figures or the condition of those rescued.
Since the 7.22 (July 22nd) accident in Jiangsu, the SCMSSB website has reported a further eleven deaths in Chinas coal mines. As in the Wufu tragedy, gas explosions were the cause in the two accidents reported. On July 29, five miners died at a mine in the Bijie district of Guizhou province. Two days later, six coal miners died in a mine owned by the Zhunnan Mining Group in Anhui province.
(China http://www.chinacoal-safety.gov.cn/ 01/08/01)
The State Coal Mine Safety Supervision Bureau (SCMSSB) has announced that the rescue operation at the Wufu mine near Xuzhou city, Jiangsu province has been formally ended. The bureaus website says that 92 bodies have been recovered, but makes no mention of earlier conflicting reports on the number of people involved in the accident - 105 or 106. Some agencies reported that 13 people were rescued whilst others claimed 16 miners were brought to the surface alive. CLB has not been able to confirm these figures or the condition of those rescued.
Since the 7.22 (July 22nd) accident in Jiangsu, the SCMSSB website has reported a further eleven deaths in Chinas coal mines. As in the Wufu tragedy, gas explosions were the cause in the two accidents reported. On July 29, five miners died at a mine in the Bijie district of Guizhou province. Two days later, six coal miners died in a mine owned by the Zhunnan Mining Group in Anhui province.
(China http://www.chinacoal-safety.gov.cn/ 01/08/01)