10 detained over fatal coal mine tragedy
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TEN people were detained yesterday in connection with a coal mine disaster that killed 32 people last week, Xinhua news agency reported.
Qiu Zetian, chairman of Baoma Coal Supplies Co, the company that operated the mine, along with nine others were detained on suspicion of illegal mining and negligence.
Investigations were going on into the blast that originally trapped 181 people underground in a small mine in Inner Mongolia, it said.
Authorities had warned the company against the use of excessive extraction techniques in March but it had failed to change its practice, Xinhua said.
The blast came shortly after a coal mine accident in Heilongjiang Province killed 21 people.
The government has told miners to step up production to ease high prices and meet winter demand. Coal accounts for almost two-thirds of China’s energy consumption, but its mines are among the world’s deadliest.
The government has ordered all coal mines to conduct safety overhauls. The rate of accidents has alarmed regulators.
In October, 33 people died in a gas explosion at a coal mine in the southwestern city of Chongqing.
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