A Chinese mine owner has offered money to rescuers who find missing miners dead or alive.
A Chinese mine owner has offered money to rescuers who find missing miners dead or alive.
Rescuers are trying to reach 69 miners trapped underground in three separate incidents.
The owner of a mine in southern Guangxi where 18 miners have been trapped since Saturday posted a notice offering 2 million yuan ($300,000) to rescuers for each person they pull out alive.
On Friday, the local Laibin Daily said the company added a reward of 50,000 yuan for each body pulled out.
The newspaper cited an official as saying rescue efforts sped up after the rewards were announced. Calls to the company rang unanswered.
Another 23 miners have been trapped in the south since Saturday and 28 more are missing after a coal mine fire in the east.
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