Rescuers continued searching today in Tashan for survivors of yesterday’s mine accident, the most deadly since the closing of the recent Olympic Games in Beijing. Reuters reports:
Angry residents wailed and protested as rescuers in northern China kept hunting on Wednesday for dozens of victims feared trapped by a deluge of mud after a reservoir for mine waste collapsed, killing more than 50 people.
State media reported late on Tuesday that searchers had confirmed 56 dead after heavy rain triggered Monday’s collapse of the holding pond at the Tashan mine in Shanxi province.
But news reports and some local officials have suggested the thick mud and sand that blanketed hundreds of meters could hold more dead, possibly a hundred or more.
See this report from AP.
