Local officials tried to cover up scale of Chinese mine disaster by hiding bodies, report findsLocal officials in northern China moved the bodies of miners killed in a flood last year and produced a fake accident report to downplay the scale of the disaster, an official report has concluded. But the report said local officials committed serious misreporting by issuing a report that only two people were missing - which meant the investigation could have been carried out at a local level. Seven days after the flood, the bodies of 12 workers were transferred to another location in secret. The accident report said the accident was the result of shoddy construction work and 20 people, including the head of the mine, the boss of the firm building the mine and local officials at various levels, have been taken into custody. The investigation report was published on April 28, but on Saturday it could not longer be found on the Hebei emergency management department's website.
