Death Toll Rises to 57 in North China Gas Explosion

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Death Toll Rises to 57 in North China Gas Explosion

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Four more bodies were found on Tuesday in a coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province, bringing the death toll from a weekend gas explosion to 57, with 15 still missing, according to sources with an investigation team.

Eighty-seven miners were working underground in the Mengnanzhuang coal mine in Xiaoyi City Saturday noon when the blast occurred. Fourteen escaped from the mine just after the disaster, and one miner was rescued on Sunday afternoon.

The bodies of 43 victims have been raised to the ground and three rescue teams were still searching underground for more survivors, local officials said.

The investigation team, headed by Zhao Tiechui, deputy director of the State Administration of Coalmine Safety, was formed Tuesdayto probe the cause of the tragedy.

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