From Reuters via SignOnSanDiego:
Eight Chinese miners are missing after another coal shaft was flooded, this time in southwest China, local media reported on Friday, a week after a mine flood in eastern China trapped and likely killed 181 miners.
Emergency crews continued to try to reach the 181 miners trapped in the eastern province of Shandong, but an official has said there is ‘no hope’ of survivors in one of the nation’s worst mine disasters. Now the West China Metropolitan Daily has reported that eight more miners are missing in the southwest province of Sichuan after water rushed into a shaft on Thursday. [Full Text]
