Chinese Miners rescued after a week in flooded mine
Over one hundred Chinese coal miners were pulled out alive Monday after being trapped for over a week in a flooded coal mine. To survive the ordeal some of the coal miners were forced to eat sawdust and had to strap themselves to the walls with their belts to avoid drowning while they slept.
Rescuers in tears hugged each other at the scene, which was broadcast live on national television. The sudden surge in rescues was a rare piece of good news for deadly China mining industry. A rescue spokesman said 115 survivors had been brought out of the coal mine.
Of the 153 initially trapped, there are still 38 miners in the shaft. Rescuers expressed confidence Monday they could be saved but did not say whether there had been any contact with them. Rescuers have been pumping water out of the flooded mine since last Sunday, when workers digging a tunnel broke into an old shaft filled with water. The first signs of life came Friday, when tapping could be heard coming up the pipes. Divers first headed into the tunnels over the weekend but found high, murky water and emerged empty-handed.
"This is probably one of the most amazing rescues in the history of mining anywhere," said David Feickert, a coal mine safety adviser to the Chinese government.
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