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| Wangjialing coal mine flood | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 王家岭煤矿“3·28”透水事故 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 王家嶺煤礦“3·28”透水事故 | ||||||
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The Wangjialing coal mine flood was an incident that began on Sunday, March 28, 2010, when underground water flooded parts of the Wangjialing coal mine in the Shanxi province of People's Republic of China. A total of 261 people were in the mine when workers first broke through an abandoned shaft that was filled with water. Over 100 managed to escape, but 153 workers were trapped in nine different platforms of the mine.
Television reports spoke of the survivors attaching themselves by belts to the wall of the mine as waters rushed in. They hung there for three days until a mine cart drifted by and they got in. Most workers are safe with a few dozen still trapped as of 5 April, if the official numbers are correct; families claim the actual number is higher.[1]
The mine belongs to state-owned Huajin Coking Coal Co. Ltd. At the time, workers were building the mine's infrastructure to allow it to produce 6 million tons of coal per year at full production.
- ^ Grammaticas, Damian (2010-04-05). "Scores rescued from Chinese mine". BBC News. Retrieved 2010-04-05.
A total of 153 people were said to have been trapped underground, but families say this is an underestimate as many more were working in the mine at the time.