Anxious relatives wait outside Chinese mine
Anxious relatives of missing miners demanded to be allowed into a coal mine today after an explosion killed at least 134 people and left rescuers searching for 15 others, adding to a soaring death toll in China’s mines despite a national safety crackdown.
The blast late yesterday in the Dongfeng Coal Mine in this town in China’s northeast prompted national leaders to demand stricter enforcement of safety rules. It came as the nearby major city of Harbin was struggling to recover from a toxic spill in a river that forced the government to cut off water supplies for five days.
