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China detains Liushenyu mine executives after deadliest coal disaster in over a decade

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Under pressure over enforcement of its own 2024 hazard list

A gas explosion ripped through the Liushenyu coal mine in Shanxi Province on the evening of May 22, when 247 workers were underground. By the next day, state media reported roughly 90 dead, more than 100 hospitalized, and the mine's executives in detention.

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