BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers searched today for 28 miners trapped for more than a day in a coal mine after an explosion that killed at least 19 people in southwest China. Police detained the mine owners and checked for safety violations.
There were 154 miners working at the Xiaojiawan coal mine in Sichuan province’s coal-rich Panzhihua city when it exploded Wednesday evening, and 107 survivors have been pulled to the surface, the State Administration of Work Safety said in a statement.
Rescuers recovered the bodies of 16 miners who died from carbon monoxide poisoning, state-run Central China Television said. Three other miners died at a hospital after being pulled to the surface, CCTV said. It did not give the cause of death for those miners.
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