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Death toll rises to 30 in Hebei coal mine blast
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-05-21 20:56 Rescuers have so far discovered 30 bodies at the
site of a coal mine blast that occurred Thursday in Chengde, a city in north
China's Hebei Province.
Another 20 miners remain missing, and only one of the
trapped miners has been rescued.
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wretches the relatives of the missing miners to wait for
the rescue news at the pit of tunnel.
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The explosion occurred at around 3:00 a.m. Thursday when 85 miners were
working underground at the Nuan'erhe Colliery. Thirty-four of them were lifted
up to the ground, with 51 others trapped by Thursday night.
Among the trapped, 49 were locals from Chengde and two were from Qinglong
County in Qinghuangdao, a city neighboring Chengde.
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 65 million yuan (US$7.8 million) in Dec.
2003
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