State television in China says that nine miners have been rescued from a flooded coal mine in Shanxi province where 153 people have been trapped for a week. Sebastian Usher has more.

The last sign of life had been the sound of tapping on Friday. Nothing had been heard since. Three thousand people have been working around the clock to try to pump out the water in the flooded mine in northern China. Now, their efforts have at least partially paid off. TV pictures showed the nine rescued miners being rushed away in ambulances to hospitals. It's believed the remaining trapped miners may be in as many as nine different locations. A preliminary investigation suggested there had been safety breaches at the mine. China's mining industry is amongst the most dangerous in the world.

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