Search goes on for 20 miners

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.