Coal mine fire in Southern China’s Guizhou Province kills 16 people

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Some very bad news out of China over the weekend. Local authorities in Guizhou province say that a coal mine fire killed 16 people on Sunday.

  • blaze broke out at the Shanjiaoshu coal mine in Panguan, a town in Guizhou province
  • initial investigation suggests that the people who died were trapped after a conveyor belt caught fire

China continues to depend heavily on coal for electricity despite substantial expansion of its wind and solar power capacity.

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