According to the Voice of China “CNR News reported, the just received message, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, is the lighthouse City coal mine gas explosion occurred at the press conference.

morning, all the rescue headquarters of the the Liaoyang lighthouse rhubarb two ore mine gas explosion today (23) held a press conference and issued by the presumably including search and rescue achieved. Up to now, various search and rescue work is still orderly, Xingmei rescue team and Lighthouse rescue team, including more than 30 aid workers have been successively probably work more than 10 hours to go down the number of over 100 people.

around 1:20 today after rescue efforts, the five dead miners dead bodies have been successfully transported back to the ground, the remaining 17 missing miners still search and rescue efforts, has been confirmed that the accident is still five people were killed, one injured. Injured people still in Liaoyang City, 201 Hospital for treatment, injury or more serious.

According to the ambulance personnel, underground gas concentration before recovery ventilation system has been down from 20 percent to 15 percent, carbon monoxide also increased from 0.01 down to 0.0024, the rescue group has taken a number of measures, for example, to increase the exhaust volume, accelerate the speed of toxic and harmful gas emissions to advance the rescue work.

In addition, according to the news reporters to master, as soon as possible or better to be able to improve the relief work, accident mining area has been blocked.

According to the reporter interviewed the scene rescuers, the location of the trapped had been initially identified, they are probably in this area, from the collapsed area of ​​about minus 169 meters, a working page, a gas explosion collapsed the situation. The rescue work difficult. The rescue workers have carried out the exhaust volume and recovery ventilation system, and then speed as soon as possible to promote as soon as possible to save those trapped workers. (Reporter Wei Guo)