Wangjialing coal mine flood

Television reports spoke of the survivors attaching themselves by belts to the wall of the mine as waters rushed in.

More than 3,000 rescue workers are working to pump out the water, equivalent in volume to 55 Olympic swimming pools.

[3] After a week of being trapped, 9 workers were rescued during the early morning hours of April 5, and sent to a hospital in Hejin.

[4] In the same day, a total of 115 trapped workers had been rescued and were quickly sent to hospitals; 26 of them were in a poor state of health.

[8] Rescuers said on April 8 that the chance of surviving for 14 workers in those 15 was "nearly zero" for they were quite near the point where the underground flood began to pour into the tunnel.