Rescuers work to no cost 21 trapped in flooded China mine
11 April, 2021
Rescuers were focusing on Sunday (Apr 11) to attain 21 staff trapped in a good coal mine found in northwest China's Xinjiang region after flooding cut ability underground and disrupted communications, state media reported.
The accident took place in Fengyuan coal mine in Hutubi County on Saturday evening, when workers were carrying out upgrading works at the website, the state Xinhua news agency said.
Eight of the 29 employees who were in the scene have been rescued from the mine, according to preliminary reports.
Rescuers experience located the miners, with 12 using one platform, 8 on a second program, and the last employee within an escape route where normal water had entered, broadcaster CCTV reported.
"The working program with 12 persons is 1,200m from walk out and the underground terrain is complex, building rescue tricky," CCTV said.
Rescuers were also trying to pump normal water from the flooded shaft and also have been piping surroundings into the mine. Pumping products was being installed.
Mining accidents are normal in China, where in fact the industry includes a poor safeness record and regulations are often weakly enforced.
In January, 22 employees were trapped in a mine in east China's Shandong province after an explosion destroyed the entrance, leaving workers stuck underground for approximately two weeks.
Eleven men were pulled away alive, 10 passed away and one miner remained unaccounted for.
In December, 23 miners died after being trapped underground in the southwest city of Chongqing - only months after 16 others died from carbon monoxide poisoning at another coal mine in the town.
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