The photo taken on April 24, 2005 shows the mouth of a coal mine where a flooding happened in Jiaohe City, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 24, 2005. Sixty-nine miners were trapped in a flooding happened at a township-run coal mine in the city on Sunday morning. Rescue operation is being carried out in a tense manner with the cause of the flooding under investigation. (Xinhua Photo)

Fire fighters transit an electric machinery and a water pump used for rescue operation with crane at a coal mine where a flooding happened in Jiaohe City, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 24, 2005. (Xinhua Photo)

A fire fighter is engaged in rescue operation. (Xinhua Photo)

    CHANGCHUN, April 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Rescuers have not found the 69 miners trapped in a flooded coal mine in Jiaohe, a city in northeast China's Jilin Province, according to the local rescue center.

    There were a total of 69 workers working beneath the shaft of Tengda Coal Mine when the flooding occurred around 7 a.m. Sunday.

    Water continues to fill the flooded shaft and fortunately the ventilation remained normal underground, said Yuan Yuqing, vice director of Jilin Provincial Coal Administration.

    Sources with the rescue center, which is now run by Jilin Provincial Governor, Wang Min, confirmed that the water came from the Ji'an mine. The mine which was located several hundreds of meters away from the flooded Tengda Coal Mine, a licensed township-run coal production business.

    Rescuers are now busy draining water from the shaft and blocking more water from entering underground.

    Cause of the flooding is under investigation. Enditem