The entrance of a
coal mine where a fire accident happened in Jixi, northeast China's
Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 21, 2015.
Twenty-one workers
were killed today when a fire engulfed a state-owned coal mine in China's
northeast Heilongjiang province, one of the deadliest accidents to hit the
world's largest coal producer.
One
missing mine worker was located safely.
Rescuers
have found bodies of 21 workers after a coal mine caught fire in Jixi city of the
province late last evening, state-run Xinhua news agency
reported.
A total
of 38 miners were working down in the shaft when the fire broke out at the mine
in Jixi city operated by the state-owned Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding
Group. 16 of them managed to escape.
The
government said the fire was under control and no secondary disaster had been
reported.
President
of the mining group Hao Fukun said rescuers could reach the missing miner by
midnight. The report, however, did not mention the condition of the missing
person who was safely traced.
The
communication, power supply and hoisting system in the shaft have been resumed,
Hao said, adding the ventilation condition has been significantly improved.
The coal
mine, with a production capacity of two million tonnes every year, is fully
licensed, the report said.
Accidents
have become common as energy hungry China, world's largest producer of coal,
depends a lot on coal supplies to fire its economy.
This is
the deadliest mine incident since April this year when a water leak at a coal
mine killed 21 people in the northern city of Datong in Shanxi province.
In
August, 10 people were killed in two separate accidents at coal mines in China.
In October, one person was killed in Shandong province.
Source:
Business Standard
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