Chinese state media said Monday that at least 12 out of 22 workers trapped for a week by an explosion in a gold mine are alive, as hundreds of rescuers seek to bring them to safety.
The Xinhua News Agency reported that a note passed through a rescue shaft Sunday night said the fate of the other 10 miners remains unknown. The handwritten note said that four of the workers were injured and that the condition of others was deteriorating because of a lack of fresh air and an influx of water.
Managers of the operation were detained after they failed to report the accident for more than a day. The mine in Qixia, a jurisdiction under the city of Yantai in Shandong province, had been under construction at the time of the blast, which occurred Jan. 10.More than 300 workers are seeking to clear obstructions while drilling a new shaft to reach the chambers where the workers are trapped and to draw off dangerous fumes.
“Keep on with the rescue efforts. We have hope, thank you,” read the note, written in pencil on notebook paper and posted on Xinhua’s website.
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