China Coal Mine Victims Family Clash with Police

HEGANG, TimeIsNews.com - Family victims of gas explosion in a coal mine in northeastern China involved scuffles with police, Monday, and demanded answers from the mine owners of the explosion. China’s official media reported, the number of victims killed in the blast on Saturday and it reached 104 people.

These protests came a day after 11 other miners were killed in an explosion in an underground mine, in Hunan province, Xinhua news agency said. China is longing for a stable government was concerned with the public protest and would be hard under supervision.

China has the death toll from coal mining industry in the world’s largest. More than 3,000 people were killed in the mine flooding cases, explosions, mine collapses and other accidents during 2008 alone.

The explosion last Saturday at the mine near Hegang, in Heilongjiang province, occurred at more than 500 miners were in the ground, though most had been salvaged. Dozens of women, families of the victims, to fight the cold weather, Monday, voicing their frustration about the lack of information to enter the mine.

“None of the dead officers, all who died were workers,” shouted one mother. “All the officers were still alive, all the dead workers. And none of the officials who descended into the mine,” he said.

Some women tried to enter the mine complex, while others were in a big car. At least one woman screaming in the car when the vehicle pulled away from the mine.

In 2007, after more than 180 miners were killed in floods in coal mines in the northern province of Shandong, the families of the victims stormed the offices of the mine management company, destroying windows, accusing the manager did not give the news to families about what happened .