国内英语新闻:9 survivors lifted out of flooded coal mine, sent to hospital

"I would be more than happy to see whoever is brought out of the mine,even if he is not my father," said a young man waiting for his family member to return to safety.

Luo Lin, head of the State Administration of Work Safety, read a telegraph of Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang on the rescue site. In the letter, Zhang expressed sympathy to the survivors on behalf of Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao and ordered rescue workers "to race against time and go all out to continue the rescue work."

Hu and Wen has also warned against the occurrence of secondary disasters in and around the mine covering about 180 square kilometers, which straddles Xiangning County, of Linfen City, and Hejin, a county-level city within Yuncheng City.

Underground water gushed into the pit of the under-construction Wangjialing coal mine at about 1:40 p.m.last Sunday. Altogether 261 miners were working underground, and only 108 were lifted to safety.

A survivor is rescued out of the flooded Wangjialing Coal Mine in Xiangning County, north China's Shanxi Province, April 5, 2010.

More than 360 bags of glucose were sent down the 250-meter coal mine after rescuers heard knocking on the metal pipe Friday.

An investigating team entered the mine Saturday and early Sunday, but reported back the situation was very complicated and the gas intensity was fluctuating.

The rescue headquarters planned to launch the rescue operation Sunday noon, but the plan was postponed due to the complexity underground.