By Xinhua
Nanchang : A coalmine gas blast has killed three miners and injured seven others in east China’s Jiangxi province, government sources said Tuesday.
The blast occurred Monday in the Yinying Coal Mine in Puqian township of Hengfeng county, in northeastern Jiangxi, when 10 miners were 285 metres underground carrying out repair work.
The rescuers found the bodies of two miners after the blast and sent eight injured people to hospital. One severely injured person died in hospital, while the others were still being treated.
The township government runs the mine, which was put into operation in 1996 with a designed production capacity of 100,000 tonnes.
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