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All families of Jixi mine explosion victims compensated

The families of 37 people killed ina coal mine explosion in Jixi City of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have been compensated by Wednesday, according to local labor and social security department.


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The families of 37 people killed ina coal mine explosion in Jixi City of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have been compensated by Wednesday, according to local labor and social security department.

"The last family unpaid arrived in Jixi from Sichuan Province on Tuesday night and the local government has paid 2.41 million yuan (290,000 US dollars) for all the 37 victims," said He Fuku, director of the labor and social security bureau of Jixi City.

Each family has received an average of 65,000 yuan (7,831 US dollars) in compensation, and the families of 12 dead miners, who had bought insurance for industrial injuries, have been paid some 800,000 yuan (about 100,000 US dollars), He said.

The blast occurred at 6:10 a.m. on Feb. 23 when 37 miners were working in the shaft about 300 meters underground. Poisonous gas residues in the shaft slowed rescue work.

The trapped miners, including two women, were aged between 22 and 49, and 30 of them were locals or former workers laid off fromlocal enterprises that had gone bankrupt, and seven were from southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Baixing Coal Mine was shut down on Feb. 6 by the local coal mine production safety department because of potential safety problems and the company that operated the mine was fined 20,000 yuan (2,400 US dollars). However, the owner, Wang Shijun, resumed production on Feb. 9 despite warnings.

Wang has been arrested by police.

Source: Xinhua


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