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- 20 coal mine explosion victims still in critical condition – Bernama
Twenty victims of a coal mine explosion which left three workers dead in Pantu, Sri Aman division yesterday, are still at the intensive care unit of the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) in Kuching, while another 10 injured are in stable condition.
These figures were released by Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department director Nor Hisham Mohamad at a press conference in Kuching this evening.
He said those injured were eight North Koreans; Myanmars (six); Indonesians (eight); China (six) and Bangladeshis (two).
Of the number, 20 are in critical condition and suffered maximum burns. They are treated at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) intensive care unit, Normah Medical Specialist Hospital and Borneo Medical Centre in Kuching.
The rest who were out of danger have been warded at the SGH and Sri Aman Hospital.
The workers killed in the 9am explosion at Selantik were identified as Indonesian national Kardianto, 38, North Korean Pang Chung Hyok, 29, and Myanmar Tun Tun Win, 29.
The bodies, currently kept at the Sri Aman Hospital will be transferred to SGH for post-mortem tomorrow.
The blast was believed to have been caused by sparks from a faulty fan which ignited a gas fire which caused an explosion in a 69-metre deep tunnel at the mine.
The mine, located about three kilometres from the Sri Aman main road had been in operation for eight years with 119 foreign workers – North Koreans (46), Indonesians (19), Myanmar (29), Chinese (15) and Bangladeshi (10).
The last explosion at a coal mine in the state was in Abok in 2012, in which four Chinese nationals were killed. – Bernama, November 23, 2014.
