{"id":18117,"date":"2020-12-05T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T12:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=18117"},"modified":"2020-12-05T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T12:23:18","slug":"coal-mine-accident-in-chinas-chongqing-kills-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/18117","title":{"rendered":"Coal mine accident in China\u2019s Chongqing kills 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Beijing,<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">18 people have died after being trapped in a mine in China\u2019s southwestern city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua\u00a0news agency said on Saturday, the region\u2019s second such accident in just over two months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">The dead were among 24 people trapped underground by excessive levels of carbon monoxide gas at the Diaoshuidong coal mine, the agency said, adding that one survivor had been rescued while search efforts continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Friday\u2019s incident, which occurred at about 5:00 pm (0900 GMT) in a mine shut for more than two months as the company dismantled underground equipment, is being investigated, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">China\u2019s mines are among the world\u2019s deadliest, with 16 deaths reported in late September after high levels of carbon monoxide trapped miners at the Songzao coal mine in Chongqing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">Diaoshuidong, built in 1975 and run since 1998 as a private enterprise, is a high-gas mine with an annual capacity of 120,000 tonnes of coal,\u00a0Xinhua\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">In 2013, three people were killed and two injured in a hydrogen sulphide poisoning incident at the mine, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, 18 people have died after being trapped in a mine in China\u2019s southwestern city of Chongqing, the official Xinhua\u00a0news agency said on Saturday, the region\u2019s second such accident in just over two months. The dead were among 24 people trapped underground by excessive levels of carbon monoxide gas at the Diaoshuidong coal mine, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18119,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions\/18119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}