The miners died after mining explosives stored in the shaft blew up and released clouds of toxic gas at a township coalmine near Chenzhou on Saturday, the report said. Last August, the provincial government suspended all of Chenzhou’s 270 coal mines for the rest of 2009, after an accident at a graphite mine killed 15 people.
Published in the Express Tribune, May 31st, 2010.
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