{"id":429850,"date":"2024-07-30T08:37:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T05:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=429850"},"modified":"2024-07-30T05:46:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T02:46:27","slug":"coal-mine-collapse-kills-five-in-northern-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/coal-mine-collapse-kills-five-in-northern-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal mine collapse kills five in northern Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Five coal miners have been killed after a mine in northern Vietnam collapsed, local authorities said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The accident happened on Monday at a coal mine in Quang Ninh province, the country&#8217;s largest coal mining area, the provincial <\/span>People&#8217;s Committee said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The victims, all males aged between 23 and 47, were employees of a unit of state-owned coal miner Vinacomin, state media reports said on Tuesday. Vinacomin was not immediately available for comment on the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An investigation into the cause of the accident is underway, the provincial committee said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Coal mining accidents are not uncommon in Vietnam, which remains heavily reliant on the fossil fuel for power generation. Coal-fired power plants accounted for 60% of the country&#8217;s electricity output in the first half of this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In April, four coal miners were killed and seven others were injured in coal mine gas explosion at a mine run by another unit of Vinacomin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: Reuters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five coal miners have been killed after a mine in northern Vietnam collapsed, local authorities said on Tuesday. The accident happened on Monday at a coal mine in Quang Ninh province, the country&#8217;s largest coal mining area, the provincial People&#8217;s Committee said in a statement. The victims, all males aged between 23 and 47, were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":429851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-429850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429852,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429850\/revisions\/429852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}