(Xinhua): 2010-10-09 13:47
URUMQI -- Four miners were killed and another was seriously injured after a colliery collapsed in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Friday, local authorities said Saturday.
A pit owned by Xinjiang Shenhua Tiandian Mining Co. Ltd. in Hutubi County in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture caved in at about 9 a.m. Friday when 23 miners were digging underground, according to officials with the Coal Mine Safety Supervision Administration.
Eighteen miners escaped and four were found dead. The injured is in a stable condition after emergency treatment in hospital.
Pit operations have been halted and investigators of the administration are probing into the accident.
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