Cold weather has hampered rescue efforts for the 11 trapped workers in a flooded coal mine in Qitaihe in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A total of 22 miners were underground when the accident happened Saturday.
Six miners managed to escape and two were rescued on Sunday. So far three bodies have been recovered. For the latest on the rescue work, let's cross over to our correspondent Guan Yang, who is reporting from the flooded mine in Qitaihe city.
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