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Article

1 May 2007

Author:
Reuters

China coal mine owner gets life for cover-up

China has jailed a coal mine owner for life for a gas blast that killed 21 people and for a subsequent cover-up...A local court sentenced Wang Jianjun, the owner of a private mine in Jincheng in the coal-rich northern province of Shanxi...Wang had ordered an "outrageous cover-up" of the deaths by sealing off information, sending miners home and destroying evidence...The sentence was the harshest punishment meted out in recent years in the world's deadliest coal mining industry, with a death toll of 4,746 people in 2006...Two of [Wang's]...managers were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, and another 19 defendants, including eight civil servants, were also jailed.

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China: Coal mine owner jailed for life for blast that killed 21

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