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83 Chinese miners Buried Avalanche
Posted on Sunday, March 31, 2013
83 Chinese miners Buried Avalanche
BEIJING, KOMPAS.com - Chinese authorities on Sunday (31/3), said there were no survivors were found, two days after the 83 copper miners buried by landslides in Tibet, although there massive search.
"Rescuers have not found a victim or a dead body," said pihat authorities told Xinhua news agency on Friday, referring to the search Maizhokunggar region, east of the capital of Tibet, Lhasa.
landslide incident occurred on Friday morning. Miners camp, at an altitude of 4,600 meters and 70 kilometers east of Lhasa, was destroyed by the thousands of tons of rock.
Hundreds of rescuers struggled in the difficult terrain to search for victims after a three-kilometer plot of land, with volume reaching 2 million cubic meters, slide down the slope, covering the miners camp.
Xinhua says Maizhokunggar workers work for a subsidiary of China National Gold Group Corp., a state-owned company and the country's largest gold producer.
In a separate incident, a gas explosion at a coal mine in northeast China has killed 28 people, authorities said the state media. A total of 13 others were rescued in the accident on Friday at Babao Coalmine in Jilin Province, said a spokesman for the safety agency and pengawan province, Xinhua reported Saturday.
