Eight people detained over coal mine fire that traps 28 miners in east China

Police have detained eight people in east China’s Shandong Province in connection with a coal mine fire that has trapped 28 miners for more than two weeks, local authorities said Saturday.

A total of 91 people were working underground in the Fangbei Coal Mine in the province’s city of Zaozhuang on July 6 when an air compression device located in a parking lot 255 meters underground caught fire.