BEIJING – A worker trapped in a Chinese gold mine for more than a week has died as rescuers try to clear debris and improve ventilation to save 21 others also stuck deep below ground, state media reported Thursday.
Rescuers have been in contact with 11 workers trapped in one chamber and have delivered food, medicine and other supplies to them.
State media said one of them had suffered a head injury in the initial explosion and lapsed into a coma before dying. Two other workers in that group were described as in poor health.
Another was reportedly alive in a nearby chamber, but the fate of another 10 workers remains unknown. The reports said exhaustion has set in among some of the workers since the Jan.