DRENNEN, W.Va. (AP) — Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded West Virginia coal mine, authorities said.

A mining crew hit an unknown pocket of water Saturday about three-quarters of a mile into the Rolling Thunder mine near Drennen, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of the state capital of Charleston, Nicholas County Commissioner Garrett Cole said in a Facebook post.

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