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Eight survivors found 5 days after Chinese language mine collapsed
The government of Pingyi in Shandong Province said at an afternoon conference that the Party chief of the county, its head and its two deputy heads were removed from their posts for “a series of work safety incidents”.
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Eight people were found alive in a Chinese gypsum mine on Wednesday, state media said, five days after it collapsed in an accident that reportedly prompted its owner to commit suicide.
Search teams were trying to contact possible survivors through a hole drilled at one location and hoped to supply them with water and provisions, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Nine others remain missing, and 11 made it to safety or were rescued early on. They told rescuers they were in passages underground that were intact.
The mine owner drowned himself at the scene on Sunday while he was helping in rescue efforts, Xinhua reported previously.
Gypsum is a mineral used to make fertilizer, chalk and other materials.
Four top officials in Pingyi county, where the mine is located, have since been sacked.
The mine collapse was so severe that the national natural disaster bureau detected a quiver with a magnitude of 4.0 at the mine site.
The nation’s mines have always been the world’s deadliest, but safety improvements have reduced deaths in recent years.
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China has a long history of industrial accidents. AP material published by LongIsland.com, isdone so with explicit permission.