Gas hampers rescue of 11 miners in SW China
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Rescuers are seen at the accident site after a coal and gas outburst occurred at the Jinjia Coal Mine under the Panjiang Investment Holding Group in southwest China's Guizhou Province, Jan. 19, 2013. The accident, which happened Friday afternoon, has left two people dead and 11 others trapped. [Xinhua/Huang Shujin] |
Rescuers said Saturday that the high density of gas has hampered rescue efforts after 11 miners were trapped in a coal pit following a gas outburst in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
Altogether 50 rescuers are working round the clock to pump gas out at the Jinjia Coal Mine in the Panxian County of Liupanshui City.
But the gas density was still very high by late Saturday afternoon, which was unsafe for rescuers to search the trapped people underground,rescuers said.
Eighteen people were working in the mine shaft when the accident happened Friday afternoon. Two miners died and four of the five miners who were lifted out of the mine were injured.
The injured people are in stable condition, doctors with a local hospital said.
A working team dispatched by the State Administration of Work Safety arrived at the mine Saturday to oversee the rescue operation.
The state-owned Jinjia Coal Mine, which is under the Guizhou Panjiang Clean Coal Co. Ltd., has an annual output capacity of 1.8 million tonnes of coal.
Deng Dehua, a vice general manger of the Panjiang company who is in charge of work safety, Wang Yongsong, head of the coal mine, Luo Weidong, chief engineer of the mine, and Xia Liucai, a deputy head of the mine, have been ordered to resign, according to the rescue headquarters.
The Guizhou provincial work safety administration have ordered the authorities of the Panjiang company, the Liupanshui City and the Panxian County to launch a general overhaul of industrial work safety.
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