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Mining execs punished over Shaanxi landslide negligence

Xinhua, January 15, 2016 Adjust font size:

Six executives of a state-owned mining company have received punishments ranging from the sack to official warnings over their negligent handling of a deadly landslide in northwest China's Shaanxi Province in August.

The heads of Shaanxi Wuzhou Mining Co. failed to take emergency measures or report the landslide that killed eight people and left 57 missing when it hit workers quarters at the company's Shanyang County branch as well as three private homes in the early hours of Aug. 12.

The provincial government fired or demoted four of the executives, handing two of them over for criminal investigation.

The general manager and deputy general manager of Shaanxi Nonferrous Metal Group, which holds shares in the mining company, both received a Party warning.

The provincial government said Wang Changqing and Li Wenyi, the deputy heads of Shaanxi Wuzhou's Shanyang branch, were directly responsible for the accident. They were both killed in the landslide. Endi