Grim task: Rescuers working at the site where the restaurant collapsed in Xiangfen, Shanxi province. — Reuters
BEIJING: The Work Safety Committee of China’s State Council will supervise a probe into a restaurant collapse in northern Shanxi province that caused 29 deaths, the committee said in a statement.
The accident happened at around 9:40am on Saturday when relatives and villagers were at the birthday party banquet for an 80-year-old person at a restaurant in Chenzhuang village in Xiangfen county, in the city of Linfen in Shanxi province, witnesses said.
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