Mine rescue effort continues

Beijing – Chinese rescuers drilled deep into the ground yesterday in an increasingly desperate bid to save 21 miners now trapped for almost two weeks, with one confirmed dead and still no signs of life from over half of the missing workers.

Twenty-two workers were entombed hundreds of metres underground at the Hushan mine near Qixia city in east China’s Shandong province after a 10 January explosion sealed the entrance. –