Rescuers at a mine in southern China have been offered 2 million yuan ($A289,000) for each worker they pull out alive from a colliery that collapsed last weekend.
Heavy rains have hampered efforts to reach 19 workers trapped underground in the coalmine in Heshan city in Guangxi region. The official Xinhua news agency said that six of those had the ''highest chance of survival''.
The incident is one of a series to hit Chinese mines in recent days.
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At least 28 miners are trapped in a coalmine in the eastern province of Shandong after a fire broke out underground on Wednesday.China's coalmines have a notoriously poor safety record, which the government has repeatedly pledged to address.
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