Death toll rises to 15 in central China colliery blast
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The death toll from Sunday's colliery blast in central China's Hunan Province has risen to 15 as two more bodies were found Wednesday afternoon, local authorities said.
The two bodies were lifted out of the mine shaft at about 5:40 p.m. at Guojiawan Coal Mine in Chenxi County, in the city of Huaihua, a municipal work safety official said.
Rescue work concluded as all the trapped miners were either confirmed dead or rescued.
The mine has agreed to pay each family of the victims 280,000 yuan (40,996 US dollars) in compensation.
The Chenxi County government has ordered all the mines in the county to suspend production for safety checks.
Altogether 33 people were working in the pit when the blast occurred at around 10 a.m. Sunday. A total of 14 people escaped and 19 were trapped.
Rescuers saved five people, but one of them died in hospital late Sunday.
The Guojiawan coal mine was founded in 1995 with a designed annual output of 30,000 tonnes.
Another fatal mine disaster on Sunday in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province had claimed 107 lives as of Wednesday and another miner remained trapped in the shaft.
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