Xiangning: Rescuers are pumping water from a flooded mine in northern China where time is running out for 153 trapped workers.
Some 1,000 rescue workers are rotating on shifts to try to drain enough water to reach the trapped miners, but officials say the rescue effort could take days.
It is unclear whether anyone is still alive in the shafts.
The flood at the state-owned Wangjialing coal mine may have started on Sunday afternoon when workers dug into a network of old, water-filled shafts.
The government says 261 workers were inside the mine when it flooded, and 108 escaped or were rescued.
Family members were becoming increasingly frustrated on Tuesday with what they said was the slow pace of the rescue effort and complained that they were not seeing water being pumped out of the flooded mine.
