Angry relatives protested and demanded answers Sunday as rescue efforts sputtered ahead for 181 miners trapped underground for more than two days after a collapsed dike flooded two coal mines in eastern China.Rescuers finally managed to repair the breach and get pumps going to empty the mine shafts early Sunday, but there was no indication whether the miners were still alive or how long it would take to pump the water out.
"We must increase the volume and the speed of water removal to create the conditions for rescue," said Zhang Dekuan, the Shandong provincial spokesman.
Zhang said that as of Saturday, officials had estimated that the water in the mine was 66 feet deep.
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