China pumps effort to free miners

Rescuers were using water pumps Monday in an effort to reach 102 miners who were trapped underground in a coal mine flood in southern China, as top leaders ordered an all-out effort to rescue them.

Four miners escaped from the mine after the accident, which occurred at 1:30 p.m. Sunday (5:30 a.m. GMT) in a tunnel 420 meters (1,378 feet) underground at the privately owned Daxing Colliery in Wanghuai Town of Meizhou City in Guangdong province, the official Xinhua News Agency said, citing a local official.

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