It could take months to drain the water from two flooded coal mines where 181 miners have been trapped for four days in eastern China, a rescue official said Tuesday.Families of the miners questioned why safety warnings were ignored before a dike burst four days ago.
The waters flooded the Huayuan mine trapping 172 workers underground, while nine others are missing in a nearby mine run by a different company.
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“It would take about 100 days to drain the flood water, even if 5,000 cubic meters (yards) is pumped out every hour,” Bu Changsheng, a water engineering expert with the rescue headquarters, was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency.
“The rescue operation is not progressing as quickly as we hope,” Bu said.
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