Six dead, four still trapped in Xinjiang coal mine collapse
Xinhua
April 6, 2016
Six people have been killed and four people remain trapped after a coal mine
that caved in Sunday afternoon in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region, local authorities said Wednesday.
In total, 19 people were working underground at Tianli Coal Mine when the
tunnel collapsed at around 2:50 p.m. on Sunday in Shache County, the
regional coal mine safety inspection authority said.
About 600 rescuers have taken part in the rescue, with about 150 of them
working in the pit. The collapsed site is 1.2 kilometers away from the pit
entrance, and the buried section, with a width of 1.5 meter and a height of
1.6 meters, is 90 meters long.
Rescuers are trying to dig through the collapsed tunnel and shore it along
the way to prevent a second collapse. By Wednesday morning they were
reportedly 15 meters away from where the trapped workers are.
The chief engineer, head, and other senior figures of the mine are in police
custody. The mine is about 140 kilometers from the county seat of Shache.
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