All 29 trapped in China mine rescued: Report

All 29 people trapped in a flooded coal mine in southwestern China were pulled to safety on Monday, state media reported, in a rare bit of good news for the country's accident-prone mining sector.

China Central Television broadcast live images of people being taken on stretchers from the coal mine in Sichuan provinces to ambulances as rescuers and onlookers cheered, a day after the mine was flooded.
Such rescue successes are rare in China and the scene stood in stark contrast to the situation in New Zealand, where 29 men remained missing after an explosion at a coal mine last week, amid fears for their lives.

The official Xinhua news agency said 22 of those rescued in Sichuan were miners, while the other seven were people sent down after the accident in an initial rescue bid, but who in turn became trapped.

At least 35 miners were working in the Batian mine near the city of Neijiang when the flood hit, but 13 managed to escape, reports said.
All those pulled out on Monday.