20 children killed in China by Coal Mine explosives.

[NNadir]

"BEIJING - A cache of explosives at the home of a coal mine manager blew up in a town in northern China, killing him and at least 20 children at a nearby grade school, news reports said Thursday.



The explosion occurred Wednesday in Kecheng, a town in Shanxi province, one of China's biggest coal-mining regions, newspapers reported.


"Grade school students who were in class were buried," the Shanxi Commercial News said. It said at least 20 children were killed...


...China's coal mining industry is the world's deadliest, with thousands of deaths reported every year despite a marathon government safety crackdown..."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050303/ap_on_re_as/china_deadly_explosion

And of course we're not even looking at the cost of burning the stuff once they've mined it...