Heavy rain flooded a coal mine in southern China and trapped 17 workers underground, the government said Saturday, in the latest accident to strike the country's disaster-plagued mining industry. The flooding occurred at 7:50 p.m. (1150 GMT) Friday at a mine in Hunan province's Guiyang county, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. A rescue team at the scene confirmed that 17 workers remained underground but it was not known if they had survived, Xinhua said.