Mining accident

Chinese police and miners at the entrance to the mine near Leiyang city in central <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000014" title="China" href="/topic/intl/china-PLGEO00000014.topic">China's</a> Hunan province after fifteen miners died and another three were injured when a tramcar derailed in a coal mine in central China, in the latest accident to hit the dangerous industry. Latest figures show that 2,433 people died in coal mining accidents in the country in 2010, according to official statistics -- a rate of more than six workers per day.

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( AFP/Getty Images / February 16, 2012 )

Chinese police and miners at the entrance to the mine near Leiyang city in central China's Hunan province after fifteen miners died and another three were injured when a tramcar derailed in a coal mine in central China, in the latest accident to hit the dangerous industry. Latest figures show that 2,433 people died in coal mining accidents in the country in 2010, according to official statistics -- a rate of more than six workers per day.

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