Chinese mining disaster kills 181

Rescuers raced Saturday to pump water out of two coal mines flooded by a rain-swollen river in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead.

Water levels were rising, work areas were submerged and the miners “had only slim chances of survival,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wang Ziqi, director of Shandong province’s coal mine safety agency.

Meanwhile, the death toll from the Japanese earthquake striking their largest nuclear plant is 0.

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