China Jails Managers For 172 Mine Deaths
From AP:
Two coal mine managers have each been sentenced to seven years in prison for their roles in an accident last August that left 172 miners dead, state media said Thursday.
Huayuan Mining Co. Chairman Zheng Zhenxiu and Deputy General Manager Zhang Canjun were found liable for the deaths in a flood at the mine in eastern China, the Beijing News said. The report did not specify the charges against the managers.
The local government and the mining bureau in Xintai in Shangdong province said they didn’t know about the case. No one from the Xintai Communist Party’s Propaganda Office answered the telephone Thursday. The newspaper said the two were sentenced in Feicheng, another city in Shandong.
Read also China bosses jailed for mine flood that killed 172 from Reuters.
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