Over 200 rescuers working to reach trapped miners in east China

JINAN, June 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 200 rescuers are racing against time to find eight people who remain missing in a flooded coal mine in east China's Shandong Province, local authorities said Sunday.

The flooding occurred at around 5 p.m. on Saturday at Huafeng coal mine in Ningyang County in the city of Tai'an. Among the 10 people working underground, two managed to escape while eight were trapped.

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