Huang Yi, spokesman of the State Administration of Work Safety announced the establishment of an investigative team to look into the cause of the mine flood, via China Daily:
…Huang refuted some one-sided media reports that had blamed the mine flood on natural disaster or human factor alone, saying his administration had not made any statement to that effect…
Rescue work has lasted into the fifth day Wednesday after flood water swept through a 65-meter wide breach in the Wenhe River levee drowned the Huayuan and Minggong mines, about 150 km south of Shandong’s provincial capital Jinan, last Friday afternoon…
By 7:00 am on Wednesday, the water level at Huayuan Mine where 172 miners are trapped had fallen by 25.58 meters to 67.02 meters. Yet the rescue headquarters said they were still nearly 100 meters from even the 14 nearest miners, who were 208 meters below the surface.
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More Chinese news on the mine flood from the web page of Sina News.
