17 Killed, 11 Lost in Deserted Coal Mine
From Times Wire Reports
Seventeen villagers were killed and 11 were missing after they entered a deserted coal shaft in northern China, authorities said.
The 28 people from Huizu, a village near the city of Jingzhong in Shanxi province, entered the shaft after a villager “claimed that it linked up with another coal mine in a neighboring village,” the official New China News Agency said.
A rescue team was turned back by hot air and carbon monoxide, the agency said.
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