Gas Explosion in Coal Mine in China Leaves 90 Dead, State Media Reports
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
A gas explosion in a coal mine in China's Shanxi province has left at least 90 dead, state media reported on Saturday. The accident at the Liushenyu coal mine in Changzhi city occurred on Friday night, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Approximately 247 workers were on duty at the time. The agency initially reported, in the early hours of Saturday, that there were eight fatalities and 38 trapped underground. By Saturday afternoon, nine individuals remained trapped, Xinhua indicated. The agency noted that an investigation into the cause of the explosion is underway and rescue operations are ongoing. Many of the injured suffered from toxic gas exposure, according to state broadcaster CCTV. President Xi Jinping has called for all possible efforts to rescue those still unaccounted for and to investigate the cause of the accident, as well as to hold those responsible accountable, according to Xinhua. Shanxi province is known as China's main coal mining region. Covering an area larger than Greece and with a population of around 34 million, the province's hundreds of thousands of miners extracted 1.3 billion tons (1.17 billion metric tons) of coal last year, nearly a third of the country's total.
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