A flood at a mine in southern China has trapped 36 workers, only two days after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China killed 33 people.
The accident happened at the Tianchi Colliery in Sinan, a county in Guizhou province. Rescuers saved 44 workers and another 36 are missing, it said. The cause of the flood was under investigation.
China's coal mines are the world's deadliest, accounting for 80 percent of all coal mining-related deaths worldwide last year, according to the government.
More than 4,500 Chinese miners were reported killed this year in fires, floods and other disasters.
Last month, a blast in a central China mine killed 166 miners — the nation's deadliest mining accident in years and 33 people lost their lives on Friday when an explosion occurred at a coal mine in Shanxi province, near the city of Yangquan.