Hopes Fade of Rescuing Trapped Coal Miners
From Times Wire Reports
Rescuers raised the number of workers feared trapped in a flooded coal mine in southern China to 122 and said hopes of finding any alive after three days were fading. New China News Agency reported that one body had been recovered.
Authorities suspended two local mayors over the disaster.
Only four miners managed to escape after the tunnel 1,575 feet underground became flooded Sunday at the privately owned Daxing Colliery in Guangdong province.
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