Mainstream media outlets in the area had avoided reporting on the story, saying they were not sure if the reporter was writing a story about the mine, or simply trying to blackmail its owner.
An online forum first published reports on Saturday that Lan Chengchang, a reporter with the China Trade News, and two of his colleagues were attacked by a mob at an unlicensed coal mine in Datong’s Hunyuan County on January 10, according to a /Nanfang City News/ report yesterday.
Meanwhile, a flood inside an iron mine in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region trapped 28 miners on Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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