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More mining accidents reported
Thirteen miners were trapped underground and remained missing after a flooding accident yesterday in Southwest China's Guizhou Province. The accident happened at 13:40 yesterday when 39 miners were working underground at the Dahao Coal Mine in Tianzhu County, according to the provincial coal mine safety administration. Twenty-six miners came to the surface just before the flood, leaving 13 trapped. Rescue work is now underway, with six water pumps working at full speed to draw water out of the well. "We have dispatched two giant 22 kilowatt pumps from nearby Kaili City to the spot and the water level has been dropping steadily," said an official surnamed Gu with the provincial coal mine administration. Zhang Qunshan, vice-governor of Guizhou Province, has arrived at the scene and is commanding the rescue operation. The township coal mine is a licensed one with a designed capacity of 30,000 tons of coal per year, according to a Xinhua report. In another development, a colliery fire killed one miner and trapped 14 others at around 10 am yesterday, at Jinyuan coalmine in China's northernmost Heilongjiang Province, according to local government. An official with the provincial coalmine safety supervision bureau told Xinhua that there were 31 coal miners working underground when the fire started suddenly. Rescuers have rescued 16 coal miners, spotted the body of one miner, and gone on looking for the other 14 trapped miners.
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