Eighteen miners were trapped after a coal mine blast in Lianyuan city of central China's Hunan Province on December 17, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
(Xinhua News Agency December 18, 2008)
![Eighteen miners were trapped after a coal mine blast in Lianyuan city of central China's Hunan Province on December 17, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20081218/000802ab80120ab4536a2b.jpg "Eighteen miners were trapped after a coal mine blast in Lianyuan city of central China's Hunan Province on December 17, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]")