BEIJING – Rescuers had been working Sunday to achieve 18 folks trapped underground after a cave-in at a gold mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang area, state media reported.
A complete of 40 folks had been working underground on the mine in Yining county, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the border with Kazakhstan, on the time of the collapse Saturday afternoon.
Twenty-two miners had been delivered to the floor however 18 stay trapped.
“A rescue operation is underway to retrieve the remaining miners,” Xinhua news company mentioned late Saturday.
Mine security has improved in latest a long time, as has media protection of main incidents, lots of which had been as soon as missed.
But accidents nonetheless happen often in an trade the place security directions are sometimes lax, particularly on the most rudimentary websites.
In September final yr, 19 miners stranded underground after the collapse of a coal mine within the northwest province of Qinghai had been discovered useless after a protracted search.
But in December 2021, 20 miners had been rescued from a flooded coal mine in northern Shanxi province whereas two others died. —Agence France-Presse
