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Search for 14 trapped miners continues as hope fading
( 2003-10-14 21:39) (Xinhua)

Rescuers continued their search into the 100th hour Tuesday for 14 miners trapped in a flooded coal shaft in Dengfeng City, central China's Henan Province.

Hopes were fading as rescuers struck rising water levels inside the shaft, a rescue official said.

The breakdown of the pump and water leakage in the new channel dug by rescuers to reach the trapped miners also hampered the operation, which advanced only two meters underground on Tuesday, he said.

The bodies of four of the 18 trapped miners were found on Sunday and identified as Li Gen, Wang Guoyi, Wang Deren and Zhang Aiguo, all migrant workers from Dengfeng or neighboring Ruzhou city.

The chances of survival for the remaining 14 were very slim as the Changda coal mine was flooded at about 2"A team of 700 rescuers had been mobilized to work in shifts.

The flooded Changda coal mine began operating in 1997 and was unlicensed, he said.

It was the second coal mine accident in three months in Dengfeng. The first occurred at Dengfeng Coal Mine in Baiping Township on July 13, killing 21 workers.

 
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