In China, 49 miners have gone missing and four people have died after an open-pit coal mine collapsed in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Report that Chinese media Wednesday. More than nine hundred rescue workers are looking for survivors, six people have been rescued so far.
At around 5pm local time, the mine collapsed, engulfing dozens of miners and machines in the rubble. According to a spokesman for the rescue team, the search was temporarily suspended after another landslide, but the search resumed a few hours later.
The company that manages the mine, Inner Mongolia Xinjing Coal Industry Co. Ltd., was fined last year for multiple security violations, it reported local media. The company was condemned for, among other things, a lack of qualified supervisors and unsafe access roads to the mining area. Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched an investigation into the accident.
