Eleven workers trapped in a flooded coal mine in China
A total of 18 people were working underground when the flooding occurred at this morning in the Xinsheng coal mine in Yanhe county, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Seven miners managed to escape on their own, and rescuers have been sent to the mine for the search of the trapped miners, the report said.
The mine in the township of Qiaojia has a designed annual capacity of 90,000 tonnes. PTI KJV