Tough mission: Rescuers working round the clock at the colliery in Yongchuan. — EPA
CHONGQING: Rescuers are working around the clock to search for 20 miners who have remained trapped in a colliery in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality for nearly 24 hours following a gas explosion.
Altogether 33 miners were stranded in a pit of Jinshangou Coal Mine in Yongchuan District after the explosion went off at 11.33am on Monday.
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