2 dead, 9 missing in flooded Shaanxi mine
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Rescuers have found two miners' bodies in a flooded colliery in Shaanxi Province, but nine remain missing more than 75 hours after the flood.
![Workers load the relief supplies at the Zhaojin Coal Mine in Yaozhou District in the city of Tongchuan, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 27, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua/Shao Rui]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20160428/7427ea210acc188bea0517.jpg "Workers load the relief supplies at the Zhaojin Coal Mine in Yaozhou District in the city of Tongchuan, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 27, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua/Shao Rui]") |
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Workers load the relief supplies at the Zhaojin Coal Mine in Yaozhou District in the city of Tongchuan, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 27, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua/Shao Rui] |
The first body was retrieved from the Zhaojin coal mine in the city of Tongchuan at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, and the second was found at around 5 a.m. on Thursday, said an official with the emergency rescue headquarters.
As of 4 a.m. on Thursday, rescuers had pumped out all the flood water, about 21,000 cubic meters, and were clearing sludge from the shaft to search for the missing.
The mine flooded at 8 a.m. on Monday, when 67 miners were underground. Fifty-six of them managed to escape.
The cause of the flood is still not known.
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