Rescuers keep phone contact with 69 trapped miners

时间：2007-07-31 06:56:05

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Chinese miners work to rescue the 69 miners trapped at a coal mine in Shanxian County, Central China's Henan Province, July 30, 2007.
 
July 31 - Rescuers are maintaining phone contact with 69 miners who have been trapped in a flooded coal mine in central China's Henan Province since Sunday morning.

 

Experts are trying to send food and drinking water through the 800-meter-long ventilation pipes to the miners, who were working below ground when the flood triggered by rainstorms hit the region at around 8:40 a.m. on Sunday.

 

The trapped miners have not reported any injuries to rescuers through the fixed1 line phone, but asked for food and water at 3:00 p.m.

 

The area where the miners are trapped is dry and still has electricity, but ventilation was poor.

 

Just 33 of the 102 miners working underground at the time managed to escape the Zhijian Coal Mine, in Shanxian County, Sanmenxia City, about 200 kilometers west of Henan's provincial2 capital Zhengzhou.

 

The floodwater was said to have come from a nearby river.

 

Hundreds of rescuers, including armed police, are struggling to prevent　more water entering the shaft3, clearing away the silt4, and providing ventilation and oxygen to the trapped miners.

 

This state-owned mine was established in 1958. It was designed to produce 210,000 tons a year, but its actual annual output is 300,000 tons.

 

Senior officials have arrived at the site to oversee5 rescue work, including Xu Guangchun, secretary of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, Li Chengyu, governor of Henan, Li Yizhong, director of the State Administration of Work Safety, and Zhao Tiechui, director of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety.

 

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1 fixed JsKzzj     
adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的
参考例句：
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。
2 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
3 shaft YEtzp     
n.(工具的)柄，杆状物
参考例句：
  • He was wounded by a shaft.他被箭击中受伤。
  • This is the shaft of a steam engine.这是一个蒸汽机主轴。
4 silt tEHyA     
n.淤泥，淤沙，粉砂层，泥沙层；vt.使淤塞；vi.被淤塞
参考例句：
  • The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.湖里几乎快被淤泥和植物填满了。
  • During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.每年河水泛滥时都会在田野上沉积一层淤泥。
5 oversee zKMxr     
vt.监督，管理
参考例句：
  • Soldiers oversee the food handouts.士兵们看管着救济食品。
  • Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.请一位房产检视员或建筑师来监督并检查不同阶段的工作。

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