Little hope for men trapped in flooded shaft
Post on: 2011-09-05 By: admin
Three workers trapped in a mine in north-eastern China since it flooded 10 days ago are unlikely to survive the disaster, the state Xinhua news agency says.
Rescue workers on Tuesday pulled 19 miners from the pit in China's Heilongjiang province.
The rescue provided a rare good-news story in an industry notorious for lax safety standards that are believed tokill thousands of workers every year.
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Efforts to rescue the three workers who remain trapped underground in the illegally operated mine are continuing.
But their chances of survival are slim, according toXinhua.
Xinhua said the men had been located, citing rescue workers.But it was not clear whether they were still alive.
''They have limited room for survival,'' the agency quoted a rescuer as saying.
Rescue workers continued to pump water out of the mine.
The mine was flooded on August 23, when the workers had mistakenly drilled into a neighbouring mine.
That mine had been filled with water.
Only 19 of the 45 miners who were in the pit when it flooded were able to escape.
Four workers were pulled out on Saturday. One of those workers later died.
Another 19 were rescued early Tuesday morning.
China's coalmines, which have a dismal safety record, have been hit by a series of accidents in recent years as demand for energy has spiked.
Last year, 2433 people died in coalmine accidents in China, according to official statistics.
This is equivalent to a rate of more than six workers per day.
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