BEIJING—Two people died and 18 were trapped in a coal mine in eastern China on Oct. 21 after a rock burst destroyed part of a mining tunnel.
The spontaneous fracturing of rock—a kind of earthquake-induced by excavation—took place around 11 p.m. Oct. 20 in Shandong province. Part of a water drainage tunnel was destroyed in the burst, said the official Xinhua News Agency, and two people were killed by fractured rocks that fell in the tunnel.
