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 | Bystanders look on near a giant depression where flood water is believed to have seeped into the Huayuan Mining Co. coal mine in Xintai, eastern China's Shandong province, Sunday, Aug 19, 2007. Angry relatives protested and demanded answers Sunday as rescue efforts sputtered ahead for 181 miners trapped underground for more than two days after a collapsed dike flooded two coal mines in eastern China. click to open  |  | Rescuers work outside a flooded coal mine in Xintai, in east China's Shandong province August 19, 2007. More than 180 Chinese miners trapped down a flooded shaft have slim hopes for survival, but officials said they would press on with frantic rescue efforts after one of the nation's worst mine disasters. click to open |  | Rescuers work outside a flooded coal mine in Xintai, in east China's Shandong province August 19, 2007. More than 180 Chinese miners trapped down a flooded shaft have slim hopes for survival, but officials said they would press on with frantic rescue efforts after one of the nation's worst mine disasters. click to open |  | Rescuers work outside a flooded coal mine in Xintai, in east China's Shandong province August 19, 2007. click to open |  | Angry relatives weep outside the compound at a coal mine in Xintai, eastern Shandong province. Scuffles broke out between relatives and security forces at a coal mine in eastern China as hopes faded for the rescue of 172 miners trapped unberground by flash floods. click to open |  | A distraught relative pulls on the hand of a security personnel who tried to prevent journalists from talking to relatives at a gate to the Huayuan Mining Co. mine in Xintai, eastern China's Shandong province, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Agitated relatives complained that no information was provided to them about the trapped miners as rescuers raced to pump water from two flooded coal mines in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead after being inundated by a rain-swollen river. click to open |
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