Rescuers carry a casualty on a stretcher at Dong Yu coal mine where flooding occurred at a pit, in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China May 23, 2017. Picture taken May 23, 2017. REUTERS.
Beijing: Six miners were killed in a flash flood at a coal mine in northern China, officials said Wednesday.
They said five miners were rescued from the flooding in Dongyu Coal Mine near Taiyuan, capital of the coal-rich Shanxi Province.
The rescue operation ended today and the survivors were being treated, state-run China's news agency (Xinhua) reported.
Officials said there were 11 miners when the flooding occurred yesterday.
It was not clear what caused the flooding.
