Mine Accidents Continue to Occur in China

Scores of miners were trapped at the Tengda coalmine in Jiaohe city, Jilin province, China, on 24 April after flooding swept into mine shafts from the adjoining Ji'an mine. Some 39 miners were rescued due to a ventilation system that still worked in the Tengda mine, but 30 other miners perished. On Monday, 25 April, four miners died following a gas explosion at the Duzhai mine in the northern province of Shanxi.