N. China Mine Blast Injured Receiving Careful Medical Treatment
Posted on: Saturday, 4 February 2006, 09:00 CST
N. China mine blast injured receiving careful medical treatment
TAIYUAN, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- All of the 53 people who were poisoned in Wednesday's coal mine gas blast in North China's Shanxi Province are now receiving careful medical treatment, local colliery safety supervisors said Friday.
According to officials with the provincial coal mine safety supervision bureau, only one person is seriously ill and the remaining 52 are in a stable condition.
At around 7 p.m. on Wednesday, a gas explosion ripped through the Sihe Coal Mine, part of the state-owned Jincheng Mining Group, when 697 miners were working down the pit, the officials said.
A total of 23 miners died after suffocating from carbon monoxide that burst out with the blast, with another 53 suffering gas poisoning.
The bureau has set up an investigation team to assess the cause of the accident. A preliminary inquiry has revealed the explosion occurred at an airtight area in the pit.
Sihe Coal Mine, one of the largest collieries in the coal-rich Shanxi Province, currently produces 10.8 million tons a year.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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