China's State Council Completes Probe into Hebei Coal Mine Blast
Posted on: Saturday, 2 July 2005, 06:00 CDT
Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)
Shijiazhuang, 2 July: Investigation into the 19 May coal mine blast in north China's Hebei Province has come to an end and families of all the 49 miners killed have been compensated, the provincial coal mine work safety administration said on Saturday [2 July]. Each family has received 200,000 yuan (24,000 US dollars) in compensation from Nuanerhe Mining Co in the city of Chengde, where the explosion occurred at around 3.00 a.m. [local time] on 19 May.
Altogether 85 miners were working down the pit when the accident occurred. Thirty-four were lifted up to the ground and 51 got trapped - of whom 49 were confirmed dead, one survived and another one was never found. Search and rescue for the missing miner ended on 16 June at the approval of the local government.
An investigation team sent by the State Council, the Chinese cabinet, have left Chengde this week, after a six-week-long investigation at the site. Located at Nanzhangzi Village in Bajia Township, the coal mine used to be state-owned, but was auctioned to the Beijing Guodian Zhongneng Electric Fuel Investment Co, Ltd. for 65m yuan (about 7.8m US dollars) in December 2003.
Source: BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
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