152 trapped in flooded coal mine in China
At least 152 workers were trapped when a vast coal mine in northern China flooded on Sunday, state media reported, in the latest incident in the country's hazardous mining industry.
A total of 261 miners were working in the pit in Shanxi province at the time, and just over 100 managed to escape, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Publication Date:
29/03/2010