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Death toll rises to 6 in C China warehouse accident
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-13 01:06
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CHANGSHA: The bodies of six workers trapped in a collapsed pile of manganese in central China's Hunan Province were all recovered by Monday afternoon, local authorities said.
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More than 400 cubic meters of manganese nodules crushed through the wall of a warehouse of Fengyun Manganese Co., Ltd. in Huayuan County at 1:10 pm Saturday. The manganese spilled into a nearby workshop where 35 people were working.
Twenty nine workers were rescued while six were buried.
The six were aged between 28 and 56. Five of them were local residents of Huayuan and one came from nearby Baojing County.
The company was operating illegally as the county work safety supervision bureau had ordered it to halt production two days before the accident, the spokesman said.
