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Flood in unfinished China coal mine traps 153
The number of workers trapped by flooding in an unfinished Chinese coal mine has risen to 153, state media reported…Some 108 men were lifted to safety when water surged into a pit that was still under construction on Sunday afternoon, the official Xinhua agency reported, quoting rescue headquarters at the Wangjialing Coal Mine in northern Shanxi province…Most of the 261 workers believed to have been underground at the time of the accident were migrants…with no better employment options than the wages offered by the risky mining industry…Affiliated to state-owned Huajin Coking Coal it is a major government-approved project…