eight people dead Eight more people missing as a result of explosion in coal mine In central China’s Henan province, local media reported this Saturday.
According to preliminary investigation, the accident occurred at a mine in Pingdingshan city on Friday afternoon and involved an explosion of gas and coal, state agency Xinhua reported.
Search teams are working Rescue 37 workers still trapped In the region where 425 people were working at the time of the incident, eight of whom were missing, 380 of them have already been evacuated.
Authorities launched an investigation and preemptively detained those responsible for the mine owned by Pingdingshan Tianan Coal Mining Company.