5 suffocate to death in Yunnan coal mine (Xinhua) Updated: 2004-07-03 16:51
Five villagers were killed by poisonous gas in a coal mine in southwest
China's Yunnan Province, said the government of Fuyuan County in Qujing City on
Friday.
The five victims, four brothers and one fellow villager, were found dead in
the underground water of a coal mine in Dahe Village after they tried to get
coal on Tuesday night. The coal mine was full of carbon monoxide and carbon
dioxide, which were the cause of their deaths, according to sources.
The coal mine was an illegal mine dug by the five villagers. The local
government had searched the place for other illegal mines, sources said.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Today's
Top News |
|
|
|
Top China
News |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|