(Chinese) "Miners' families angry at disaster"

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'"It's 100% the management's fault," said Xia Qingyin, whose brother Xia Qingbao is one of those still trapped underground in the mine disaster in eastern Shandong Province.
Their mother is currently in hospital. Xia Qingyin said she collapsed with shock when local mine officials told her that her son was unlikely to come back alive.
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The company has sent teams to comfort the relatives and offer each of the trapped miners' families an initial payment of 2,000 yuan ($264).
But it has also attempted to stop journalists getting access to the families, some of whom have openly voiced their anger, not only about the accident but about the lack of information they have been given on the fate of their loved ones.'
BBC, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6959844.stm

China news today says "Cause of mine floods yet to be decided":

'Aug.23 - The government has yet to launch an investigation into the flooding that has left 181 people trapped in two mines in Shandong Province since Friday, as rescue efforts must come first, a safety official said Wednesday.
"The State Council has yet to set up an investigation team," Huang Yi, spokesman of the State Administration of Work Safety, said.
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However, in an exclusive interview with the Xinhua News Agency earlier yesterday, Huang criticized media reports that blamed the flooding on either a natural disaster or human error, saying the work safety administration had not made such a statement.'
China news, http://www.chinanews.cn//news/2007-08-23/38772.html

The official statement, based on 'preliminary analysis by experts', is "natural disaster".