Hopes faded on Monday for 102 Chinese coal miners trapped by flood waters as state media reported an explosion at a second pit which killed 14 people.
Flood waters were rising in the mineshaft in Xingning in the southern province of Guangdong which was inundated on Sunday.
“There are 15 million to 20 million cubic metres of water under the mine and the water level is still rising 50 cm (20 in) an hour,” the Xinhua news agency quoted a vice mayor of nearby Meizhou as saying.
“Chances of the trapped workers surviving are relatively small,” he said.
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