Rescuers Battle Rubble and Water in Race to Save 13 Trapped Russian Miners

MOSCOW—Rescuers in Russia’s far east battled rubble and water on Wednesday in an attempt to save 13 miners who have been trapped 120 metres (390 feet) underground in a gold mine for nearly two days. The miners were trapped on Monday by a rock fall at the Pioneer gold mine. The mine, one of Russia’s largest, is located in the Amur region which borders China, about 5,300 km (3,300 miles) east of Moscow. “The situation remains difficult,” Amur Governor Vasily Orlov said on Telegram. Mr. Orlov said that specialist mine rescuers had flown in from Russia’s vast coal region, the Kuznetsk Basin known as Kuzbass, and other Siberian regions....