7 missing after coal mine gas outburst in central China’s Hunan
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A gas outburst occurred at a coal mine in the city of Lianyuan in central China’s Hunan Province on Friday, leaving seven people missing and one receiving emergency medical treatment, according to local emergency management authorities.
A preliminary investigation found that 52 people were working in the mine at the time of the accident, which occurred at 5:08 a.m. Of these, 44 have safely exited the mine.
Emergency responders and health personnel rushed to the site to carry out rescue operations. The cause of the accident is under further investigation.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
