{"id":12268,"date":"2019-11-19T10:28:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T07:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=12268"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T07:28:32","slug":"15-killed-in-north-china-mine-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/19\/15-killed-in-north-china-mine-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"15 killed in North China Mine Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A coal mine explosion killed 15 people in north China&#8217;s Shanxi province, state media reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nine other people were injured by the gas explosion on Monday afternoon, which took place in a mine owned by Shangxi Pingyao Fengyan Coal &amp; Coke Group Co, according to official news agency Xinhua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xinhua reported that 35 miners were working underground when the blast happened, but 11 miners were able to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The injured miners were in stable condition and authorities were investigating the cause of the explosion, Xinhua said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deadly mining accidents are common in China, where the industry has a poor safety record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a meeting last week, the State Council China&#8217;s cabinet ordered a &#8220;special crackdown on production-related safety issues&#8221; to &#8220;further improve workplace safety&#8221;, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December 2018, seven miners were killed in southwestern Chongqing municipality after the connecting segment of a mining skip broke and fell down a mine shaft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October 2018, 21 miners died in eastern Shandong province after pressure inside a mine caused rocks to fracture and break, blocking the tunnel and trapping the workers. Only one miner was rescued alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In December 2016, explosions in two separate coal mines in the Inner Mongolia region and in northeastern Heilongjiang province killed at least 59 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP A coal mine explosion killed 15 people in north China&#8217;s Shanxi province, state media reported Tuesday. Nine other people were injured by the gas explosion on Monday afternoon, which took place in a mine owned by Shangxi Pingyao Fengyan Coal &amp; Coke Group Co, according to official news agency Xinhua. Xinhua reported that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":12269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,161],"tags":[31,554,553],"class_list":["post-12268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-featured","tag-mine-blast","tag-north-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12270,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12268\/revisions\/12270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}