{"id":11147,"date":"2021-01-21T05:53:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118646\/one-worker-confirmed-dead-chinese-gold-mine-blast"},"modified":"2021-01-21T05:53:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T05:53:02","slug":"one-worker-confirmed-dead-in-chinese-gold-mine-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/one-worker-confirmed-dead-in-chinese-gold-mine-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"One worker confirmed dead in Chinese gold mine blast"},"content":{"rendered":"Chinese rescuers drilled deep into the ground on Thursday in an increasingly desperate bid to save 21 miners trapped for almost two weeks, with one confirmed dead and still no signs of life from over half of the missing workers, state media reported.Twenty-two workers were entombed hundreds of metres underground at the Hushan mine near Qixia in eastern China\u2019s Shandong province after an explosion on January 10 sealed the entrance and cut off communications.Contact has been established with one\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118646\/one-worker-confirmed-dead-chinese-gold-mine-blast\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese rescuers drilled deep into the ground on Thursday in an increasingly desperate bid to save 21 miners trapped for almost two weeks, with one confirmed dead and still no signs of life from over half of the missing workers, state media reported.Tw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11148,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}