4 Chinese miners rescued after 36 days trapped underground

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By LOUISE WATT

BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers in eastern China pulled out four miners who had spent 36 days trapped underground in a collapsed mine.

The gypsum mine in Shandong province collapsed on Christmas Day, killing one and leaving 17 missing, including the four survivors. In the days that followed, rescuers detected the four more than 200 meters (660 feet) below the surface.

On Friday, state broadcaster CCTV showed a miner being pulled out, surrounded by cheering rescuers in helmets and news crews. Medical staff rushed another miner along hospital corridors on a stretcher with his eyes covered.

Rescuers brought out the workers through two access tunnels they had drilled, and the first miner was pulled out in a capsule, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

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The first miner, is lifted from a collapsed mine in Pingyi, east China's Shandong Province, Friday evening Jan. 29, 2016. Chinese state media say two miners have been rescued from a collapsed mine after spending 36 days trapped underground. Efforts continued Friday to reach the remaining two people in the mine in east China's Shandong province. The gypsum mine collapsed on Christmas Day, killing one and leaving 13 others missing. In the days that followed, rescuers detected four survivors 200 meters (660 feet) below the surface. (Guo Xulei/Xinhua via AP) CHINA OUT

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1. Wow, that is wonderful!

[passiveporcupine]

2. This is confusing

were there 17 missing including the four, or 13 missing including the four? And what happened to the rest of the missing?

[Feeling the Bern]

3. This is a really tasteless joke, but I think this happened

[secondwind]

5. the original 17 missing included the four.. two rescued previously, and now these fortunate men

[left-of-center2012]

4. What did they eat and drink? n/t

[Cal Carpenter]

6. I don't know much about this situation

but if you want a good read, there's a book called Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar about the mine disaster in Chile several years back. The author did extensive interviews with all 33 miners and wrote an incredible account. He's a novelist normally so it is great storytelling and he gets into the details of what they ate, how they handled everything, and then the remarkable effort to get them all out. Also the psychological impact on many of the men.

I think there is a movie in the works, or it may have come out already, I don't know.

I normally can't deal with reading books or watching movies of human disasters where people die (like Into Thin Air kind of stuff, drives me nuts) but since I knew this one had a happy ending it was fine.