Rescue operations have concluded at a coal mine in Shanxi province where at least 74 people were killed in underground explosions.
![A miner injured in the accident rests in a hospital in north China's Shanxi Province Feb. 23, 2009. The death toll of the coal mine blast rose to 74 as of 6 p.m. Sunday after one body was retrieved from the shaft, the rescue headquarters said.[Jin Liangkuai/Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090224/000cf1a487730b0dd72e2f.jpg "A miner injured in the accident rests in a hospital in north China's Shanxi Province Feb. 23, 2009. The death toll of the coal mine blast rose to 74 as of 6 p.m. Sunday after one body was retrieved from the shaft, the rescue headquarters said.[Jin Liangkuai/Xinhua]") |
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A miner injured in the accident rests in a hospital in north China's Shanxi Province Feb. 23, 2009. The death toll of the coal mine blast rose to 74 as of 6 p.m. Sunday after one body was retrieved from the shaft, the rescue headquarters said.[Jin Liangkuai/Xinhua]
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Authorities have begun dealing with the aftermath, which includes medical treatment for survivors, compensating bereaved families, and investigating the cause of the incident.
The country's deadliest mine disaster in a year killed at least seventy four, and injured 114 others.
To the relief of the survivors' families, almost all the injured showed good signs of recovery. A senior health official says most are expected to make a full recovery within three weeks. Twenty-one of the twenty six seriously injured are in stable condition. And five others previously in critical condition are also improving.
The mining company says the compensation fee for each dead miner will be at least two hundred thousand yuan. And since all of the workers are insured, they should receive money from the insurance company as well.
