Surveillance video shows moment of China coal mine blast
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“Surveillance video caught the moment a powerful explosion surged through the tunnels of a coal mine in China’s Shanxi Province on Friday night.”
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Multiple web search results confirm a gas explosion occurred at the Liushenyu Coal Mine in Shanxi province. While the specific mention of 'surveillance video' is not explicitly detailed in the snippets, the event itself (explosion in Shanxi province) is reported by multiple news sources including Xinhua and others via Google News.
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— Chen Feng (Chinese: 陈峰; born June 5, 1953) is a Chinese businessman and founder of business conglomerate HNA Group, now defunct, and Hainan Airlines.
He was on the Forbes China Rich List in 2017 with …
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— This is a list of newspapers in China. The number of newspapers in mainland China has increased from 42—virtually all Communist Party papers—in 1968 to 382 in 1980 and more than 2,200 today. In 2006, …
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“At least 82 workers were killed”
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Multiple independent sources (Xinhua, Google News, and a YouTube report) explicitly state that at least 82 people were killed in the gas explosion at the Liushenyu Coal Mine in Shanxi province.
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— Shaanxi is a province in Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu…
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— Shanxi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city is Taiyuan, and its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong.
The province's one-character abbreviation is …
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— Shanxi University of Finance and Economics (abbr. as SXUFE) (simplified Chinese: 山西财经大学; traditional Chinese: 山西財經大學; pinyin: shanxi cáijīng dàxué), founded in 1951, is one of the earliest financial u…
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“making it China’s deadliest mining disaster in a decade.”
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Two independent sources (Sri Lanka Guardian and The Guardian) explicitly state that this is the deadliest mining accident in China since 2009, which supports the claim that it is the deadliest in a decade (or 'in years').
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— Shanxi merchants, also known as Jin merchants (Chinese: 晋商; pinyin: Jìnshāng), were the group of merchants from Shanxi province, China. Jin is an abbreviated name of Shanxi.
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— Shanxi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city is Taiyuan, and its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong.
The province's one-character abbreviation is …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanxi
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— Shanxi cuisine, or Jin cuisine, is derived from the native cooking styles of Shanxi Province in China. Local dishes include noodles, fried flatbread (da bing), and vinegar. Sour tastes are typical.
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