ZUOYUN, Shanxi Province, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The two top heads of Zuoyun County, where a coal mine flooding has left 56 miners trapped and feared dead after more than two weeks, have resigned, the local legislature said Saturday.

    The Standing Committee of the Zuoyun County People's Congress approved the resignations filed by Zhang Mingsheng, former head of the county government, and his deputy Shi Lu, who was in charge of local coal production, on Friday night.

    Zhang has been removed from the post of deputy secretary of the Zuoyun county committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and Shi, has been deprived of the membership of the CPC county committee after the failed attempt of the mine management to coverup the fatal accident by reporting that only five miners were trapped.

    Wang Jinxing, a key figure responsible for the flooding tragedywho fled away, was captured on Saturday.

    Police caught 35-year-old Wang in his home province of Henan incentral China, wrapping up the manhunt for all the 11 key figures suspected of being responsible for the accident.

    Wang was labor contractor of a work team in the ill-fated Xinjing Mine. Initial investigation fount that his workers drilled through a sealed area underground, and triggered the flooding.

    All the 22 miners of his team escaped from the shaft.

    The flooding occurred on May 18, and little hope left for the survival of the 56 miners that have since been trapped in the water-filled pit. Enditem