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24 trapped after coal mine flood in China
A team has been sent to investigate incident involving 24 workers trapped in flooded mine in Heilongjiang province
- AP
- Published: 07:10 August 1, 2010
Beijing: Two dozen workers are trapped in a flooded mine in northeast China, the latest accident in the country's notoriously dangerous coal industry.
A man at the State Work Safety Administration said on Sunday that the agency has dispatched a team to investigate the Saturday afternoon flood at a mine in Jixi city of Heilongjiang province.
The man refused to be identified and said no further details were available.
News of the trapped workers came one day after a blast at a workers' dormitory killed at least 17 people in a northern city with a history of deadly mine accidents.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the blast left a crater 20 metres across and about 5 metres deep.
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