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Continuous rainfalls lead to quarry accident in Shaanxi

Officials of Fugu County in northwest China's Shaanxi Province said continuous rainfalls attributed to the main cause of the collapse at a quarry on Thursday.


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Officials of Fugu County in northwest China's Shaanxi Province said continuous rainfalls attributed to the main cause of the collapse at a quarry on Thursday.

The side of a mountain near a stone pit collapsed around 8:00 p.m. Thursday, burying 23 workers in a temporary dormitory.

As of 4 a.m. Friday, rescuers had found all the buried workers with 12 dead and 11 injured. All the 11 people were out of danger, according to a local hospital.

An investigation team led by experts with the Ministry of Land and Resources found out that rocks became flexible after continuous rainfalls before the accident and the situation worsened due to the strong explosions for quarrying in nearby pits.

Production has been stopped at the site of the accident since 1997 and they did not find any clue showing that the workers had violated work safety rules, according to the team.

The factory managers, however, were responsible for building the temporary dormitory just less than 10 meters away from the mountain wall, which is very vulnerable when similar accident happened.

Located in the northern part of the Shaanxi Province, Fugu County is more than 900 km from the provincial capital Xi'an.


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