Property and business interruption

9.11, explosion, fatalities

China: at least 11 miners were killed, 14 injured and three others missing when 500kg of dynamite stored in a room near a coal mine exploded in China’s westernmost Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The incident occurred at Beitashan Coal Mine, 400km northeast of the capital city of Urumqi. An investigation into the causes of the explosion is underway.