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Who Trained Them?
AFP/Yahoo 'reports' below.
Failed to say what penalty they face.
And, that China is notorious for it's unfair trials.
And, that the CNPC officials should be jailed to.
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Three more arrested for deadly China gas blow-out
1/17/04
BEIJING (AFP) - Three more people have been arrested in connection with a gas
explosion in southwestern China last month that killed 243 people, taking the
number being held to six, state media reported.
Chuandong (East Sichuan) Drilling Company deputy manager Wu Hua, the head of the
company's No.12 oil drilling team, Wu Bin, and Xiao Xiansu, a worker at the
No.16 natural gas well, were arrested Thursday, the Xinhua news agency said.
Last week engineer Wang Jiandong and two other workers were arrested over the
blow-out in the Chuandongbei gas field which poisoned some 9,000 villagers and
led to the evacuation of nearly 60,000 as deadly sulfurated hydrogen spewed from
the well for days.
Workers drilling at the field made nearly every mistake in the book, leading to
the disaster, state TV reported this month, citing an inspection taskforce.
The drill workers not only caused the blow-out, but subsequently failed to
prevent the gas leak or raise a timely alarm with local officials in nearby
villages, official media has said.
State-run oil giant China National Petroleum Corp, operator of the gasfield and
parent of listed PetroChina, has so far forked over some 33 million yuan (3.9
million dollars) in compensation to the victims.
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