Local 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.
In 14 total bodies were discovered after the iron ore mine in Qianxi county in Hebei was flooded on September 2 and one other miner's body has never been found, a report by the Hebei provincial emergency management committee said.
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.
