All 12 trapped miners have been rescued from the collapsed
colliery in southwest China's Guizhou Province?at 11:40 AM on Friday, a
spokesman with the provincial coal mine safety administration
said.
The accident took place at around 4 PM on Wednesday at the
Rongyang Coal Mine located at the Xiashan Township, Xingren County,
the Bouyei-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Qianxinan in Guizhou.
The 12 miners were in the process of changing shifts when the
collapse occurred.
The coal mine is a licensed with a production capacity of 90,000
tons of coal a year.
(Xinhua News Agency August 19, 2006)