Rescuers were racing on Monday to reach 28 people fascinated while doing safety work in coal mine in southern China, the latest accident in the world's deadliest mines.Forty-one workers were dissident at the small, confidentially owned Batian mine in the south-western province of Sichuan when it flooded early on Sunday, said an official with the provincial work safety bureau.
He said 13 workers escaped and rescue work was under way to locate the 28 missing. It was not clear what caused the flooding.
A county-level work safety official said on Monday that no rescues had been made overnight, and the 28 were still believed trapped.
Fu Jianhua, vice-minister of the coal mine monitoring bureau told state broadcaster, CCTV, that the rescue operation was going well.
The official Xinhua News Agency said Batian had stopped production and was being upgraded to increase its annual capacity from 50-thousand tonnes to 60-thousand tonnes.
The workers had been underground for safety work, it said.
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