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Gas explosion kills 3 in South China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-06-07 11:39
Dead bodies of three miners have been found after a gas explosion at the
weekend in a township-run colliery of Shaoguan City, South China's Guangdong
Province, said local sources.
The gas explosion happened around 10:30 am on Saturday at one of Guoyuanbei
Colliery's coal-excavating platforms that is 230 meters below the ground,
trapping two miners who were measuring the work speed there at the time. The two
were first proclaimed to be missing.
The heatwave caused by the explosion swept down three other miners who were
working at another adjacent coal-excavating platform. Out of instinct, the three
were at first all running for life, but one of them returned in an obvious
attempt to rescue the above-mentioned two victims, he eventually succumbed to
suffocation.
Cause of the explosion is under investigation.
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