DRENNEN — Emergency responders were hoping to use an underwater drone Sunday to reach a miner trapped deep inside a flooded Nicholas County 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, Nicholas County Commissioner Garrett Cole said in a Facebook post.

All the other miners on the team were accounted for after the accident was reported to the county emergency management department at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday. It wasn’t clear how extensive the flooding is inside.

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said in a statement that the mine flooded after an old mine wall “was compromised,” and that multiple state agencies are involved in the response, which includes pumping water from

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