Nine people have died after a house built on top of an abandoned pool of cyanide collapsed in central China.
Cyanide pool was under house. The accident, which happened in a gold-mining area of Henan province, according to Xinhua news agency, followed an earlier tragedy.
Villagers from Yangping near the city of Lingbao had apparently gathered in the house to discuss funeral arrangements for a young man who had been found dead there earlier in the day.
The young man had quarrelled with his parents the previous day and had run away from home to spend the night alone in the uninhabited house.
Police suspected he had been poisoned by the cyanide.
"As the crowd flocked in at the invitation of (the man's) parents, the floor of the house, made of a single wooden board over the pond, gave way and 16 people fell into the 2-metre-deep chemical pool," Xinhua said.
"The house itself also collapsed."
Seven people were saved and sent to local hospitals, but nine died from poisoning or injuries.
Cyanide pools are used to extract gold from ore.
