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Rescuers rush to free 19 trapped miners in NW China
by AFP Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) Aug 15, 2021

Rescuers in northwestern China worked Sunday to free 19 trapped coal miners, hours after their site was flooded by mud in an accident that has already killed one worker.

The flooding happened around noon Saturday at the Chaida'er coal mine in Qinghai province, state media reported.

Mining accidents are common in China, where the industry has a poor safety record and regulations are often weakly enforced.

At Chaida'er, 21 people were working underground at the time of the accident, and one person was rescued with injuries, China's emergency management ministry said.

Another was found dead, with the remaining trapped in the mine.

Qinghai authorities said in a Sunday press conference that the mine had been ordered to suspend production at the start of the month because of "severe safety hazards", the official Xinhua news agency reported.

More than 200 rescuers have been rushed to the scenes, and local authorities have vowed a thorough investigation and an improvement in coal mine safety.

In January, a group of miners were trapped underground for about two weeks in China's eastern Shandong province.

And in April, workers were stranded in another mine in the northwestern Xinjiang region, after flooding cut power and disrupted communications.


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Climate report must be 'death knell' for fossil fuels: UN chief
Paris (AFP) Aug 9, 2021
A bombshell climate science report "must sound a death knell" for coal, oil and gas, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday, warning that fossil fuels were destroying the planet. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that the 1.5C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement would likely be breached around 2030 - a decade earlier than it itself projected just three years ago. Guterres called the IPCC's assessment - the most detailed review of climate science ... read more

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