Off the wire
• 1st Ld: Xi addresses CICA foreign ministers' meeting  • Chinese table tennis stars hot on Asian Cup  • Australia to continue Antarctic research with new billion-dollar icebreaker ship program  • 1st LD Writethru: Russia launches rocket from newly-built Vostochny Cosmodrome  • 1st LD: UN envoy urges parties to restore ceasefire in Syria before fresh peace talks  • EU lawmaker says looking forward to more investment from China  • Rampant youth homelessness costs Australia 500 million USD annually: study  • Roundup: IMF reports mixed outlook for Latin American, Caribbean economy  • Chinese firm to help expand important highway in Costa Rica  • Roundup: Australian PM recommits to "strong" gun laws on anniversary of massacre  
You are here: 　 Home

2 dead, 9 missing in flooded Shaanxi mine

Xinhua, April 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

Rescuers have found two miners' bodies in a flooded colliery in Shaanxi Province, but nine remain missing more than 75 hours after the flood.

The first body was retrieved from the Zhaojin coal mine in the city of Tongchuan at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, and the second was found at around 5 a.m. on Thursday, said an official with the emergency rescue headquarters.

As of 4 a.m. on Thursday, rescuers had pumped out all the flood water, about 21,000 cubic meters, and were clearing sludge from the shaft to search for the missing.

The mine flooded at 8 a.m. on Monday, when 67 miners were underground. Fifty-six of them managed to escape.

The cause of the flood is still not known. Endi