The search for at least 50 people missing since an open pit coal mine collapsed in northern China has been suspended following an additional landslide at the gigantic facility, state media reported on Thursday.
At least two people were killed and six injured in Wednesday’s disaster in the vast Inner Mongolia region’s Alxa League. The number of missing has been put at between 50 and 53, with no word yet on their condition.
The official Xinhua News Agency said the landslide struck at 6.00 pm Wednesday, about five hours after one of the pit’s walls caved in, burying workers and mining trucks under an estimated 10 million cubic metres (3.5 million tons) of sand and rock.
