{"id":6423,"date":"2014-04-09T07:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T23:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2014-04-09T07:29:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T23:29:11","slug":"rescuers-struggling-to-pump-water-from-chinese-coal-mine-where-22-miners-trapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/04\/09\/rescuers-struggling-to-pump-water-from-chinese-coal-mine-where-22-miners-trapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers struggling to pump water from Chinese coal mine where 22 miners trapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_145836803.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6461\" alt=\"shutterstock_145836803\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_145836803.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_145836803.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutterstock_145836803-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING &#8211; Rescuers in southern China are struggling to pump water from a coal mine where 22 miners have been trapped for more than a day.<\/p>\n<p>State media say narrow passageways and a lack of electricity at the Xiahaizi mine in Yunnan province were hampering efforts Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Xinhua News Agency said four miners escaped following the shaft&#8217;s flooding before dawn Monday, which was apparently caused by blasting on an upper level. No information was given about the condition of the men still inside.<\/p>\n<p>Xinhua said more than 500 people and three high-powered pumps were sent to the mine in Qujing city&#8217;s Qilin district, with more rescuers, pumps and electrical systems on their way.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s mines are notoriously deadly, although safety improvements in recent years have significantly reduced the deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8211; Rescuers in southern China are struggling to pump water from a coal mine where 22 miners have been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":6461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,17],"tags":[561,420,1896,1895],"class_list":["post-6423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-w","tag-as","tag-china","tag-miners","tag-trapped","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}