Injured people receive treatment in the
People's Hospital in Yongxing County, central China's Hunan Province,
April 18, 2009. Death toll has risen to 18 in a blast Friday at a
detonator and dynamite warehouse at a coal mine in Yongxing County,
central China's Hunan Province, a local official confirmed on Saturday.
The blast occurred at about 3:30 p.m. at the Qingshanbei mine, leveling
down the three-storey building where the detonators and dynamites were
stored. (Xinhua/Zhao Zhongzhi)
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CHANGSHA, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Death toll has risen
to 18 in a blast Friday at a detonator and dynamite warehouse at a coal mine in
Yongxing County of Chenzhou City, central China's Hunan Province, a local
official confirmed on Saturday.
There are three injuries and two missing in the
blast.
An injured woman receives treatment in
the People's Hospital in Yongxing County, central China's Hunan Province,
April 18, 2009. (Xinhua/Zhao Zhongzhi)
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Police were hunting for three shareholders of the
coal mine, and cause of the accident was being investigated, said Xie Guanghui,
head of the Yongxing County government. One of the three had been put under
control, Xie added.
The blast occurred at about 3:30 p.m. at the
Qingshanbei mine, leveling down the three-storey building where the detonators
and dynamites were stored.
Police said the detonators and dynamites might be
illegally bought and stored.
Injured people receive treatment in the
People's Hospital in Yongxing County, central China's Hunan Province,
April 18, 2009. (Xinhua/Zhao Zhongzhi)
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