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Rescuers drain gas at death pit

RESCUERS yesterday drilled two ventilation holes about 170 meters into the ground to help release gas from a flooded coal mine where 29 miners have been trapped for six days in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Sun, Jul 27 2008

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