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Xinjiang mine disaster blamed on owner's greed
By Guan Xiaofeng in Beijing and？Aheng Caixiong in Guangzhou (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-16 07:12
However, Zhao Tiechui, director of the State Administration of Coal Mine
Safety, also blamed poor enforcement by authorities.
"The local governments' inadequate supervision and the coal mine enterprises'
failure to faithfully carry out the safety policies made by the central
government may partly account for the situation," he said.
Statistics show that 2,672 people were killed in the first half of this year,
a year-on-year growth of 3.3 per cent.
The follow-up from the Xinjiang tragedy accompanied news on Friday from South
China's Guangdong Province, where rescuers and government officials were still
working hard last night to rescue 16 workers trapped in a coal mine in Xingning
of Meizhou Municipality.
The accident took place in Luogang Township in eastern
part of Guangdong around noon on Thursday when the Fusheng Coal Mine was
suddenly flooded. Two workers were immediately rescued.
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