By Xinhua
Xintai (China) : At least 172 miners were trapped in a flooded coal mine in east China’s Shandong province, officials said Saturday.
The flooding occurred Friday in the coal mine of Huayuan Mining Co Ltd in Xintai, about 150 km of Jinan, Shandong’s capital.
A total of 756 miners were working underground at the time of the flooding and 584 managed to escape after the accident, said an official of the company.
Heavy rainfall hit the area Friday with a precipitation of 205 mm triggering flash floods and a 50-meter breach of a levee of the Wen river. Floodwater from the Wen river swamped the coal mine via an old shaft.
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