China Mine Blast Kills at least 17.....again

[Pert_UK]

"Seventeen bodies have been recovered at the site of a gas explosion in a northern China coal mine, state television said Tuesday. Ten more workers were trapped in a shaft in Zuoquan County in Shanxi province, China Central Television reported in its noon newscast. Chances that the trapped miners survived were slim because of high temperatures underground, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

It was the third mine accident in Shanxi in less than two weeks.

Twenty-seven miners were working when the blast occurred at around 11:30 a.m. Monday, Xinhua said. It was probably triggered by the resumption of electricity after a power flux, CCTV said...

On Wednesday, 28 miners were killed in a mine explosion in the city of Yangquan. Barely three days before that, 37 were killed a gas blast in the Xingergou mine near Datong. Five others remain missing. "

China really does have a shocking record when it comes to worker safety.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3043695,00.html