Two miners wait for news of their missing co-workers yesterday outside a mine in Changchun, Jiling Province. One was rescued from the flooded Changling Coal Mine, and the search continued for the six still missing.—Xinhua

Rescuers are pumping water out of the flooded colliery in this capital of northeast China's Jilin Province on Friday morning, but the whereabouts of the six miners trapped Thursday in the pit remained unknown, local rescue source said.
After 24 hours of continuing rescue work, the power supply and drainage systems in the pit were restored by 6:00 a.m. Friday, said Li Lianqing, director of the workplace safety bureau in Shuangyang district of the city.
About 60 cubic meters of flood water is being pumped out of the mine every hour, he said, adding that a second pump will be in place by midday to speed up the drainage process.
Li said toxic gas density in the pit has lowered to normal level and two rescue teams are working round-the-clock to monitor the gas density.
The flooding occurred at about 3:10 a.m. Thursday at Changling coalmine in Changchun, trapping seven miners, with only one of them having been saved by now, the local source said.