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Chinese
miners hold pipes used for pumping out water from a flooded mine during rescue
operation at a coal mine in Xintai, eastern Shandong province, on August 20,
2007 ©Teh Eng Koon (AFP)
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The owner of a Chinese
gypsum mine committed suicide Sunday after a cave-in which killed one person
and left 17 trapped, state media said. Ma Congbo drowned himself while he was at the
scene helping the rescue, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Over
700 rescuers are battling to save the workers after the Friday accident in the
eastern province of Shandong, it said, adding that four had managed to escape
and seven more had been pulled out of the mine.
