China Suspends Official Over Deadly Mine Blast

From Reuters, via The Washington Post:

China has suspended a senior provincial safety official after a coal mine explosion killed 214 people and outlined a series of measures aimed at cleaning up the world’s deadliest mining industry, state media said on Thursday.

Liu Guoqiang, vice-minister of the northeastern province of Liaoning responsible for industrial safety, lost his job after a meeting of China’s cabinet to improve work safety chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao.

The mine blast at a colliery in Liaoning owned by the state-owned Fuxin Coal Industry Group earlier this month was China’s worst in half a century.

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