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| It wretches the relatives of the missing
miners to wait for the rescue news at the pit of tunnel.
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BEIJING, May 22 -- Rescuers have so far discovered 40
bodies at the site of a coal mine blast that occurred Thursday in Chengde, a
city in north China's Hebei Province by 14:00pm, May 22, according to a China
News Service report.
ĦĦThere are still 10 miners missing.
In the days of rescue operation, only one of the
trapped miners has been rescued and he is under treatment in a local hospital.
The explosion occurred at around 3:00 a.m. Thursday
when 85 miners were working underground at the Nuan'erhe Colliery. Thirty-four
of them were lifted up to the ground and managed to escape, with 51 others
trapped by Thursday night.
Among the trapped, 49 were locals from Chengde and
two were from Qinglong County in Qinghuangdao, a city neighboring Chengde.
Located at Nanzhangzi Village in Bajia Township, the
coal mine used to be state-owned, but was auctioned to the Beijing Guodian
Zhongneng Electric Fuel Investment Co. Ltd. for 65 million yuan (US$7.8 million)
in Dec. 2003.
(Source: chinadaily.com.cn) | 
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