Scores trapped in China coal mine

[Colorado Progressive]

Does this mean we are fortunate????

Chinese emergency teams are searching for 172 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine, state media has reported.

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China's coal mines are among the most dangerous in the world, with more than 5,000 deaths reported annually.

story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6952519.stm

[RL3AO]

1. The numbers are always unreal when there is a Chinese mine disaster.

[Webster Green]

2. If we keep trying we could suck as bad as China..

China really sucks though, it's quite a challenge.

[Love Bug]

3. What kind of parallel weirdness is going on here?

First we have a bridge collapge, then China has a bridge collapse.
Then we have a mine collapse, then China has a mine collapse.

This is all a metaphor for ... what?

[Colorado Progressive]

4. I dunno but the pic in post #2 might say it all....LOL

[Kurovski]

5. For crappy government?

[Colorado Progressive]

6. and why we suck more each day n/t

[RL3AO]

7. China is about to get whats left of Typhoon Sepat.

[whoneedstickets]

8. Anything you can do, we can do worser....

we can do anything worser than you!


Someone with a sense of the big picture might frame these parallel events as emblematic of our contemporary world's life-threatening lust for energy.

[Colorado Progressive]

11. much worser mo money much worser mo money

:woohoo:
:puke:
:woohoo:
:puke:

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. Flood in Chinese Coal Mine Traps 172

Flood in Chinese Coal Mine Traps 172
Published: 8/18/07, 1:05 AM EDT
By JOE McDONALD

BEIJING (AP) - Water from a rain-swollen river poured into a coal mine in eastern China, leaving 172 miners trapped and feared dead, government officials and a state news agency reported Saturday.

A dike on the Wen river in Shandong province broke Friday afternoon, sending water flooding into the mine in the city of Xintai, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Work areas were submerged and the miners "had only slim chances of survival," Xinhua said, citing Wang Ziqi, director of Shandong's coal mine safety agency. There was no indication whether rescuers had any sign that miners were alive.

Employees who answered the phone at the national coal mine safety agency in Beijing and refused to give their names said none of the miners had been found.

The disaster came as rescuers in Utah suspended the search for six coal miners trapped since Aug. 6 by a cave-in. Authorities announced the suspension Friday following a tunnel collapse that killed three rescue workers.

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[Colorado Progressive]

10. this must be where Neocons learnt to keep their mouth shut nt

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