How many members of the Chinese families were present to protest the mine disaster?”
UPDATE 2-China families protest mine disaster; toll hits 104 Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:19pm GMT By Maxim Duncan HEGANG, China, Nov 23 (Reuters) – Relatives of miners killed by a gas blast at a coal pit in northeast China scuffled with police and demanded answers from the owners on Monday as the toll hit 104 and hopes faded that any more survivors would be found. The protest came a day after another 11 miners were killed in a blast at a pit in the southern province of Hunan, the official Xinhua agency said. China’s stability-obsessed government is nervous about protests, and keen to control discontent. China has the world’s deadliest coal-mining industry with more than 3,000 people killed in mine floods, explosions, collapses and other accidents in 2008 alone. Saturday’s explosion at the mine in Hegang in the frigid province of Heilongjiang came as more than 500 miners were underground, though most were rescued. Mine operators were at fault because they failed to evacuate workers fast enough a
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