Eight miners have been rescued and 21 remain trapped in a coalmine that flooded in northwest China's Xinjiang region, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reports, citing a local emergency department.
A part of the mine flooded leading to power outages just after 6pm on Saturday (local time) when 29 miners were working at the mine in Xinjiang's Hutubi county, the report said.
In a separate report, state media outlet Global Times said 12 of the trapped miners had been located as of Sunday and were expected to be rescued, while a further nine workers had not been found.
Chinese mines are among the deadliest in the world.
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Ten goldminers were confirmed dead in January following an explosion in a mine in China's coastal Shandong province.
In December, 23 people were killed after being trapped in a mine in the southwestern city of Chongqing. Three months earlier, 16 people died in a separate coal mine in the same area.
State media on Sunday said rescue efforts in the Xinjiang mine were ongoing.
