17 sentenced for coal mine blast

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-02-25 11:44



Seventeen officials of the Xinyao Coal Mine stand in front of police officers and onlookers during a public sentence for their involvement in a gas blast that killed 105 people in Hongdong County, North China's Shanxi Province, February 24, 2008. They were handed down sentences ranging from one year to life imprisonment. [Xinhua]

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