2 Chinese Workers Found Dead, Trapped for 5 Days in Flooded Tunnel

Rescuers work to clear a flooded tunnel after 14 construction workers were trapped in an underground section of a new highway construction site after it collapsed in Zhuhai in China's southern Guangdong province on July 16, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images

BEIJING—Two of 14 workers who had been trapped in a flooded highway tunnel for five days, so far, in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai were found dead, the city government said on Monday.

Early on July 15, water suddenly leaked into the Shijingshan tunnel, which is being built under a reservoir, trapping the workers more than a kilometre from the entrance.