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Thursday, September 14, 2006
25 Trapped in China Tunnel Collapse
BEIJING - Firefighters and construction workers rushed Tuesday to dig out 25 road workers trapped after a tunnel collapsed in southwest China, local officials and media said.
The collapse occurred early Monday on a highway linking the cities of Guangnan and Yanshan in Yunnan province, said Lu Ying, a spokeswoman with the Guangnan Work Safety Bureau.
Lu said 26 people had been in the tunnel when it collapsed but one managed to escape. Fresh air, as well as food and drink were being piped into the remaining 25 trapped workers in the 165-foot-long tunnel, she said.
Rescuers at the scene were having trouble communicating by their mobile phones, she said, so she did not know if anyone had been pulled out Tuesday.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported late Monday that rescuers said the trapped workers were "all alive and they should survive."
Yunnan's local Life Express newspaper said on its Web site that one of the construction company's drivers, Li Zhiyong, said he noticed a fissure inside the tunnel that had been grown wider every day.
Xinhua said the cause of the collapse was under investigation.
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The collapse occurred early Monday on a highway linking the cities of Guangnan and Yanshan in Yunnan province, said Lu Ying, a spokeswoman with the Guangnan Work Safety Bureau.
Lu said 26 people had been in the tunnel when it collapsed but one managed to escape. Fresh air, as well as food and drink were being piped into the remaining 25 trapped workers in the 165-foot-long tunnel, she said.
Rescuers at the scene were having trouble communicating by their mobile phones, she said, so she did not know if anyone had been pulled out Tuesday.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported late Monday that rescuers said the trapped workers were "all alive and they should survive."
Yunnan's local Life Express newspaper said on its Web site that one of the construction company's drivers, Li Zhiyong, said he noticed a fissure inside the tunnel that had been grown wider every day.
Xinhua said the cause of the collapse was under investigation.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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