An explosion at a coal mine in central China have slain 47 miners and injured at least six others. The official Xinhua news agency said the blast occurred early Monday near Pingdingshan city in central Henan province. Seventy-five workers were in the mine when explosives went off in the magazine of Xingdong Number Two Mine at about 1:40, the report said. The municipal government said 28 miners escaped Pingdingshan.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao called on rescuers to do to rescue workers trapped exhaust. They ordered authorities to take measures to prevent a secondary accident and called for an immediate investigation to determine the cause of the explosion.
Xinhua News Agency reported that the police the owner of the mine, Liu Jianguo, held the frozen my bank account. The news agency says the private mine was operating with a suspended license.
China is the world’s worst mine safety record with more than 2,600 miners killed last year in accidents and explosions.
Last year, authorities Pingdingshan all 157 routes in order to close within his district, after dozens of miners were slain in a pit explosion.
Presidents Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao ordered Monday that the rescue was to use “all means” to save the miners immediately after the incident.
Both Hu and Wen called for measures to prevent possible secondary disasters, and efforts to the cause of the explosion to be determined.
Commissioned by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, State Councillor Ma Kai was on his way to the site to the families of the dead and wounded to visit.
source:news.xinhuanet.com
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