“At 5:13 p.m. (10:13 a.m. Paris time), three people were able to be taken out of the mine, two of whom did not show vital signs,” said the state news agency China News.
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At least 57 people were “missing” after the collapse of an open-pit coal mine in the region of Inner Mongolia (China), Wednesday February 22, according to the state channel CCTV. “More than 200 rescuers arrived on the spot”, according to this same source. “At 5:13 p.m. [10h13, heure de Paris]three people had been rescued from the mine, two of whom did not show vital signs.added the state agency New China.
Accidents occur regularly, due to the inherent danger of the sector and the sometimes random application of instructions, even though mine safety has improved over the past decades in China, as has the media coverage of these incidents. Many of them were once passed over in silence.
At the end of December, 40 people were trapped underground after the collapse of a gold mine in the Xinjiang region. In December 2021, two miners stranded in a flooded coal mine in Shanxi were dead and 20 others were rescued after rescue operations. Three months earlier, 19 miners trapped underground after a coal mine collapse in Qinghai province were found dead.
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