China News Service, Chongqing, September 27 (Reporter Liu Xianglin and Liu Xian) At about 0:30 on the 27th, a carbon monoxide overrun accident occurred in Songzao Coal Mine, a subsidiary of Chongqing Nengtou Yu New Energy Company, which caused 17 people to be trapped.
As of press time, 17 trapped persons have been searched and rescued. Among them, 16 have no vital signs and 1 has been sent to the hospital for full rescue.
A reporter from Chinanews.com obtained the above information from Chongqing officials at the scene of the incident.
After the accident, Chongqing Municipality and Qijiang District immediately launched emergency plans, and established working groups for emergency rescue, medical rescue, aftermath work, investigation and evaluation, and emergency, medical, public security, and fire protection departments to carry out rescue and disposal work on the spot.
On the way to the scene of the accident, the reporter saw that traffic control began about five kilometers from the mine.
Before the incident occurred in the mine, people from multiple mine rescue teams gathered in the open space. After one rescue team lifted the well, the other rescue team immediately went down with rescue equipment.
The relevant person in charge of Chongqing Nengtou Yu New Energy Company told reporters that a total of 18 rescue teams participated in the rescue.
A rescuer who had just come up from a well told a reporter from Chinanews.com that the accident occurred far away from the wellhead, the temperature in the well was high, and the accumulation of toxic and harmful gases had not dissipated. In addition, the heavy rescue equipment he carried had caused the rescue It is more difficult.
Ms. Luo, the owner of the commissary near the mine, arrived at the mine at 8 o'clock in the morning and found that the mine area was full of rescue vehicles before knowing that the mine had an accident.
She told a reporter from Chinanews.com that at around 9 o'clock, rescuers were seen assisting a trapped person to raise the well, transferred to an ambulance and sent away.
Public information shows that Songzao Coal Mine was built in 1958 and is located in Anwen Town, Qijiang District, Chongqing City.
According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management of China, the Ministry of Emergency Management has sent a working group led by a deputy director of the National Coal Mine Safety Supervision Bureau to the scene to guide the rescue and disposal work.
At present, the aftermath work is carried out in an orderly manner, and the cause of the accident is under further investigation.
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