BEIJING — Water rushed right into a coal mine in northwestern China’s Gansu province, leaving three staff lifeless, official state information company Xinhua reported Tuesday.
There have been 133 individuals working within the mine when the flooding occurred on Monday night at a depth of about 610 meters (2,000 toes).
The report didn’t present any particulars on how the three victims died, however mentioned that the our bodies have been discovered 18 hours after the flooding occurred. The opposite 130 staff have been evacuated to security inside an hour of the flooding on the Jingmei Vitality Co. mine in Gansu, a serious coal-producing area.
China has been working to enhance mine security to stop disasters, which occur often. A coal mine explosion killed 11 individuals in Shanxi in August 2023, a coal mine fireplace in southern Guizhou province killed 16 individuals in September, and a coal mine cart ran off the tracks in northeastern Heilongjiang province killed 12 individuals in December 2023.
A hearth at a coal mining firm constructing killed 26 individuals and injured dozens of others in Shanxi in 2023. The blaze wasn’t within the mine itself.
