On December 16, the reporter learned from The official of Lüliang that 21 people were trapped in the water leakage accident caused by the theft of coal in Xiaoyi, Shanxi, and the rescue was underway. At about 23:00 on the 15th, villagers in Duxigou Village, Xixinzhuang Town, Xiaoyi City, illegally mined coal and caused a water leakage accident. According to local media reports, a few months before the incident, the local government carried out a crackdown on private digging and indiscriminate mining, and some pirated coal mines also used farms as a cover. On October 4, the staff of the Xiaoyi Municipal Natural Resources Bureau went to Xixinzhuang Town to carry out a special inspection to crack down on private digging and indiscriminate mining.
