At least 16 individuals have been killed when a hearth broke out on the Shanjiaoshu Coal Mine in China’s southwest at round 8:10 am (0010 GMT) Sunday, native officers stated.

The hearth was extinguished however “after preliminary verification, 16 people have no vital signs”, the Panzhou City authorities stated in a discover posted on its web site.

“It was preliminarily determined that the conveyor belt caught fire,” the discover stated.

The Panzhou City mine is about 3,600 kilometres (2,250 miles) southwest of the capital, Beijing.

While security within the mining sector in China has improved in latest many years, accidents nonetheless incessantly plague the trade, typically resulting from lax enforcement of security protocols, particularly on the most rudimentary websites.

In February, a coal mine collapse within the northern Inner Mongolia area left dozens of individuals and automobiles buried beneath a mountain of particles.

Authorities didn’t disclose the ultimate demise toll for months, solely revealing in June that 53 individuals had been killed.

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