Eight people were confirmed killed yesterday in a goods yard
blast in Shantou, a coastal city in south China's Guangdong
Province, and six miners were trapped underground the same day
after flooding at an Inner
Mongolian township colliery, according to police.
Five people were killed and three injured after fire triggered
an explosion at about 4 AM in Shantou as workers were loading a
container truck.
The injured were rushed to hospital but died soon after. An
investigation into the cause of the blast is underway.
The flooding in north China's?Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region occurred at around 7 AM while ten miners were working in a
vertical shaft at Qianjin Coal Mine in Yuanbaoshan District of
Chifeng City.
Four of them managed to escape and work to rescue the others is
ongoing.
(Xinhua News Agency October 19, 2005)