3Photo© indianexpress.com21 Chinese coal miners trapped by underground flood
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Rescuers were trying to reach 21 miners trapped by an underground flood in the Xinjiang region of China, a state news agency reported on Sunday.
The Fengyuan coal mine in Hutubi County in the northwest of the country flooded at around 6:10 p.m. local time (1010 GMT/UTC) on Saturday, the Xinhua News Agency said.
It added eight of the 29 miners working at the location had already been rescued.
Staff were carrying out upgrading works at the site when disaster struck.