{"id":153869,"date":"2013-03-30T17:51:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T00:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=153869"},"modified":"2013-03-31T02:43:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T09:43:21","slug":"83-buried-in-tibet-mine-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/03\/83-buried-in-tibet-mine-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"83 Buried in Tibet Mine Landslide (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rescue efforts by thousands of soldiers, armed police and firefighters turned up a single body on Saturday [see update below]<\/strong>, over a day and a half after two million cubic meters of mud and rock buried 83 miners near Lhasa<\/strong><\/a>. From Xinhua:<\/p>\n

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At about 6 a.m. on Friday, the disaster struck a workers’ camp of the Jiama Copper Polymetallic Mine in Maizhokunggar County, about 68 km from Lhasa, the regional capital.<\/p>\n

By 8 p.m. Saturday, 3,500 rescuers and 300 large-scale machineries are working on the site, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n

“The rescuers are conducting inch-by-inch search but they still cannot locate the missing miners,” said Wu Yingjie, deputy secretary of Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Communist Party of China.<\/p>\n

[\u2026] Wu added that a one-meter-wide and 15-meter-long crack was formed at the mountain top, which indicated a possibility of subsequent disasters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From the Associated Press:<\/p>\n