House Built On Cyanide Pool Collapses


	House Built On Cyanide Pool Collapses

CarnivalBorn

9-28-2007 1:21 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d8d942a8-2b36-48c4-99a8-a20d235aa191/B0F9D407-6AB4-4719-B4F0-C924F8075787/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss" href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">news.sky.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss">Nine people have died after a house built on top of an abandoned pool of cyanide collapsed in central China</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.sky.com/img/94ABC26A-68A8-443C-AF7A-52B9E4FACADC" alt="Cyanide pool was under house" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss">The accident, which happened in a gold-mining area of Henan province, according to Xinhua news agency, followed an earlier tragedy</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss">Villagers from Yangping near the city of Lingbao had apparently gathered in the house to discuss funeral arrangements for a young man who had been found dead there earlier in the day</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss">The young man had quarrelled with his parents the previous day and had run away from home to spend the night alone in the uninhabited house</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss">Police suspected he had been poisoned by the cyanide</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss">"As the crowd flocked in at the invitation of (the man's) parents, the floor of the house, made of a single wooden board over the pond, gave way and 16 people fell into the 2-metre-deep chemical pool," Xinhua said</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss"><P>"The house itself also collapsed."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss">Seven people were saved and sent to local hospitals, but nine died from poisoning or injuries</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1286174,00.html?f=rss">Cyanide pools are used to extract gold from ore</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B0F9D407-6AB4-4719-B4F0-C924F8075787/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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