A suffocation incident occurred on Wednesday in a corn processing mill in Xingping Village of Wutai County in north China’s Shanxi Province, resulting in seven deaths.
According to local authorities, preliminary investigations found that the victims had died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The incident started on Tuesday evening when a person surnamed Shan entered the feeding pit of a drying facility of the mill, which has been out of production since the beginning of this year.
Contact with Shan was subsequently lost.
Afterwards, six people entered the pit in rescue attempt but it was believed that all were poisoned.
They were later removed from the facility and rushed to hospital by firefighters and rescue workers, but still died.
Xinhua/NAN
