Gas outburst kills 7 in Hunan mine
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E-mail Xinhua, July 8, 2012
Seven miners have been killed in a gas outburst in central China's Hunan province on Sunday, local authorities said.
The accident occurred at about 6:45 a.m. at the Xiangzhong Coal Mine in the city of Lianyuan, the city government said in a press release. Thirty nine managed to escape.
The gas outburst was triggered as workers were doing the drilling work underground, an initial investigation showed.
An further investigation into the exact cause of the accident is under way.
Xiangzhong Coal Mine is a township mine with an annual production capacity of 60,000 tonnes.
In a separate mine accident in Hunan, the first group of three miners were lifted to ground early Sunday after being trapped for over three days under a flooded colliery pit.
Eleven of the 16 trapped miners at a pit of Qielichong colliery in Leiyang city were confirmed alive Saturday night. Many of the remaining eight workers suffered injuries and were under first-aid treatment underground before being pulled out.
The colliery flooding occurred at about 6 p.m. Wednesday when 40 miners were working underground. Of all, 24 managed to escape.
But the accident was not reported to the local government until Thursday morning, which delayed the start of the rescue operation by almost 12 hours, according to local authorities.
Six professional teams of 90 members and more than 1,000 people were at the scene to carry out rescue operations.
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