Rescuers at a flooded coalmine in southern Russia announced that all 46 trapped miners are alive. Emergency workers in southern Russia began rescuing cold and exhausted miners from the flooded coal mine deep underground where they had been trapped for nearly two days - but the location of 13 men remained unknown. By late afternoon, 19 of 46 trapped miners were brought to the surface in a small elevator cage used for shaft inspections. They emerged, their faces blackened with coal dust and their clothing soaked after hours in in knee-or waist-high water. Some were helped by rescue workers, one raised his arms and waved his mining helmet over his head. The miners were working some 2,625 feet down in the Zapadnaya mine Thursday when water from a subterranean lake leaked into a shaft above them

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