Rescuers pumped water from a flooded mine in northern China where
time is running out for 153 trapped workers as efforts stretched into a
second day with no communication from those stuck deep underground.
Some 1,000 rescue workers were rotating on shifts to
try to drain enough water to reach the trapped miners, but the rescue
effort could take days. It was unclear if anyone was still alive in the
shafts, some which extended a half-mile (one kilometer) into the earth.
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