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FUXIN, Liaoning, Feb. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Another corpse was found on Wednesday from a coal mine in Fuxin city, northeast China's Liaoning province, where a gas explosion occurred on Monday, bringing the death toll to 210, rescuers told Xinhua.
Five miners were still missing by press time.
A source with the headquarters in charge of rescue work said earlier Wednesday that 29 miners were injured.
The gas blast occurred at about 3:00 p.m. Monday, about 242 meters underground in Sunjiawan colliery.
Three hundred and thirty out of the 574 miners on duty escaped, and 244 miners were trapped beneath the shaft.
The Sunjiawan colliery has 3,100 workers and two coal mines. The Haizhou coal mine, the one where the disaster took place, produces 1.5 million tons of coal annually. Enditem
State
Council sends work team to Liaoning coal blast site
BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese President Hu
Jintao Monday asked local governments to spare no effort to save miners trapped
in a coal mine by a gas explosion Monday in northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice Premier Huang Ju also
instructed local officials to rescue the victims, find out the cause of the
accident and deal with the aftermath.
The blast occurred at 3:49 p.m. in the Sunjiawan colliery,
located in Fuxin, and killed 203 miners, leaving 22 others injured and 13
missing.
A work team led by State Councilor Hua Jianmin arrived at
the accident site Tuesday morning. Hua and his team will try their best to find
the missing, treat the injured, prepare compensationsfor the families of the
victims. Enditem | 
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