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Trapped coal miners doing fine - rescuers(China Daily)Updated: 2007-08-01 11:26 ZHENGZHOU -- Sixty-nine miners who were trapped in a flooded coal mine in central China's Henan Province are doing fine and would be brought to the surface on Wednesday, said rescue headquarters. The flooding occurred at around 8:40 a.m. Sunday at the Zhijian coal mine in Shanxian county, about 200 kilometers west of Zhengzhou, capital of Henan, when 102 miners were working underground. Thirty-three managed to escape but 69 others were trapped. Rescue operation is going on in a tense manner.
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