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The Wangjialing coal mine flood was an incident that began on Sunday, March 28, 2010, when underground water flooded parts of the Wangjialing coal mine in the Shanxi province of People's Republic of China. A total of 261 people were in the mine when workers first broke through an abandoned shaft that was filled with water. Over 100 managed to escape, but 153 workers were trapped in nine different platforms of the mine. Television reports spoke of the survivors attaching themselves by belts to the wall of the mine as waters rushed in. They hung there for three days until a mine cart drifted by and they got in. Most workers are safe with a few dozen still trapped as of 5 April, if the official numbers are correct; families claim the actual number is higher. The mine belongs to state-owned Huajin Coking Coal Co. Ltd. At the time, workers were building the mine's infrastructure to allow it to produce 6 million tons of coal per year at full production. ==Location== Wangjialing (王家嶺/王家岭) is in Shanxi province's south-west. More specifically, it sits on Mount Longmen. The mine is located between the town of Fancun (樊村镇) southeast of the mountain) and Xiahua Township (下化乡; northwest of the mountain) in Hejin City and Xipo (西坡镇; northeast of the mountain) in Xiangning County. Hejin and Xiangning are both in Shanxi province but belong to different prefecture-level cities: Hejin is in Yuncheng while Xiangning belongs to Linfen. The mine is located near bridges that span the Yellow River between Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wangjialing coal mine flood」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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