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A relative drags away Ma Xiuhua as she tries to talk to journalists about her brother who is trapped in the Huayuan Mine in Xintai, China. Relatives of 172 miners trapped by flooding have been kept away from the media, and authorities have kept some of them in hotel rooms, not allowing them to return home.

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