Edited for spelling.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/30/AR2010033001081.html">Families of 153 trapped Chinese miners fight for hopeXIANGNING, China (Reuters) - Over 1,000 rescuers fought against the clock at a Chinese coal mine where 153 workers were trapped by flooding in what could be one of the worst disasters to hit the deadly industry in recent years.
China has the world's deadliest coal-mining industry, with more than 2,600 people killed in mine floods, explosions, collapses and other accidents in 2009 alone.
Anxious families at the Wangjialing mine in northern Shanxi province struggled to keep up hope as high water levels stymied pumping efforts.
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On Tuesday, rescuers pulled two men from a flooded iron ore mine in Henan Province, where they had been trapped for eight days. Three people died in that accident and six others are still missing underground.
Miners' widows face a bleak future with no prospect for income, said Wang Wen, a mother of two waiting in her husband's dormitory at the Wangjialing mine.
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A gas blast at a coal pit in northeastern China in November killed at least 104 miners, while 74 died in an explosion in February at another mine in Shanxi, a coal-rich area.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/30/AR2010033001081.html">Read the whole article at the Washington Post. --d!
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