2. The Benxy Disaster
Another deadly mining explosion occurred in April 1942 in a mine under Japanese control. More than 1,549 miners were killed when the gas exploded in the mines where many of the workers were prisoners of war forced to work in the mines. The shaft was closed in an attempt to limit the fire underground, but the mine wasn’t completely evacuated before that leaving many Chinese miners to suffocate inside. More people were killed after the explosion due to the production of carbon monoxide in the closed shaft. 10 days were necessary to take out all the corpses from the mine, and many were so burned that it was impossible to identify them.
