Scores trapped in China coal mine (172)

[DS1]

Source: BBC

Chinese emergency teams are searching for 172 miners who were working underground when a coal mine flooded, state media has reported.

Amid heavy rain in Xintai city, 450km (280 miles) south of Beijing, rescuers have already led 584 miners to safety, Xinhua news agency said.

China's coal mines are among the most dangerous in the world, with more than 5,000 deaths reported annually.

"There were 756 miners working under the ground when the accident occurred," Zhang Dekuan, deputy secretary-general of the provincial government, said.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6952519.stm

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[Deja Q]

3. Given their population, and how their government's own population controls failed,

would you be surprised?

:(

Of course, they have claimed to have pulled over 400,000 of their people out of poverty - that's 1/3rd their population. No small feat. Particularly due to offshoring and America's purchasing of Chinese goods.

Symbiosis.

[ohio2007]

2. thats the monthly average for China

nt

[onehandle]

4. Most-Favored Trade Status for the slave labor kings.

Wal-Mart. Always Low Prices!

[Spinzonner]

5. Maybe we should send them Stickler

He'd be an improvement over there

[entanglement]

6. They make our criminal mine bosses seem positively benign