media - Killing weeks

One of the tricks you use in journalism is focusing on one incident, one person, one killing accident. One dramatic story does get more attention than figures of abstract deaths without a face. The state newswire Xinhua did this week an effort to reverse that story by focusing on the magnitude of figures.
In a dispatch it quoted director Wang Xianzheng of the State Administration of Work Safety (never knew such a commission existed) who had counted in the first six weeks of this year 27 'catastrophic' accidents causing the death of 382 people. With one exception all accidents took place in public places. Wang said he saw a rising trend.
On the bright side, Wang noted that the number of accidents in mines had decreased.

Update: In about the same period, 390 people got killed in traffic incidents, reports AP, quoting the official newswire Xinhua. That would be the official figure, so the absolute minumum.