Four miners were lifted to the surface alive after being trapped underground for 36 days in Pingyi, East China's Shandong province, on Friday. Thirteen others still missing after the gypsum mine collapsed on December 25.
Zhang Shuping, mayor of Linyi City, said the search and rescue for the 13 miners remaining underground is ongoing. "As long as there is a glimpse of hope, the search will continue."
One of the four surviving miners is lifted out after being trapped in a collapsed mine 36 days in Pingyi, East China's Shandong province, on Jan 29, 2016.
On July 24, 2002, a work crew of nine men from the Quecreek Coal Mine in Somerset Pennsylvania inadvertently drilled into the adjacent abandoned Saxman Mine, liberating an estimated 50-60 million gallons of water into the active mine.
The owner of a gypsum mine that collapsed on Friday in Shandong province drowned early on Sunday morning in an apparent suicide while assisting rescue teams attempting to extract the 17 miners still trapped underground, according to local authorities.
The owner of a gypsum mine that collapsed on Friday in Shandong province drowned early on Sunday morning in an apparent suicide while assisting rescue teams attempting to extract the 17 miners still trapped underground.
Eight miners were found to be alive on Wednesday morning, though they have been trapped underground for five days afters a gypsum mine collapsed in Pingyi county, Shandong province, according to the rescue command center.
Rescuers on Thursday stopped tunneling through a collapsed mine shaft in East China's Shandong province to reach eight survivors, over concerns of secondary cave-ins.
One person died and 17 remain trapped after a gypsum mine collapsed on Friday in east China's Shandong Province, local government said.
