Disorders after fatal mine blast
NZPA-Reuter Maputo About 150 miners are feared killed in an explosion on Tuesday in a coalmine in Moatize in western Mozambique, the Government has announced.
It said nine foreigners were killed in disorders that broke out after the disaster. It said that about 150 workers were buried when a violent explosion ripped through the mine “with little hope of their being rescued.” “Grave incidents and disorders” broke out after *he accident and nine foreigners of various nationalities were killed, the announcement said.
The communique said that the Tete provincial government managed to restore order and that rescue work was still going in the mine. It gave no further details of the incidents but indicated that workers might have attacked foreign technicians employed at the mine.
It said the Government had ordered an inquiry into the disaster and had decreed three days of national mourning. Moatize is about 10km north of Tete, the provincial capital.
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