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Beijing (AFP) March 28, 2010 At least 152 workers were trapped in a coal mine in northern China on Sunday after it flooded, state media reported, in the latest incident in the country's hazardous mining industry. A total of 261 miners were working in the pit when the accident took place Sunday afternoon in Shanxi province, and just over 100 of them managed to escape while the others remained trapped, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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