Twenty-three Chinese miners were trapped underground in a Chinese coal mine on Friday after a leak of carbon monoxide gas. The accident happened at around 5:00pm local time. Rescuers were dispatched to the Diaoshuidong mine in Chongqing, a huge metropolis around 1,800 west of Shanghai, and investigators were working to determine the cause of the accident. Mining accidents are common in China, where the industry has a poor safety record and regulations are often weakly enforced.&nb
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Dec 5, 2020, 10:21 am IST
Twenty-three Chinese miners were trapped underground in a Chinese coal mine on Friday after a leak of carbon monoxide gas.
The accident happened at around 5:00pm local time.
Rescuers were dispatched to the Diaoshuidong mine in Chongqing, a huge metropolis around 1,800 west of Shanghai, and investigators were working to determine the cause of the accident.
Mining accidents are common in China, where the industry has a poor safety record and regulations are often weakly enforced.
16 workers were killed at another mine on the outskirts of Chongqing in September this year only after a conveyor belt caught fire.
An earlier accident at the same mine claimed the lives of 3 miners in 2013.
In October 2018, 21 miners died in eastern Shandong province after pressure inside a mine caused rocks to fracture and break, blocking the tunnel and trapping the workers. Only one miner was rescued alive.
The same year in December 14 miners were killed in a coal and gas blast at a mine in south-western Guizhou province, seven miners were killed in Chongqing after the connecting segment of a skip broke and fell down a shaft.
Inadequate monitoring of the operations and lack of regulatory enforcement by the Chinese government whose only motto is make money are major contributing factors to the mining accidents.
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