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China rescues 11 workers trapped in Shandong gold mine, state media reports
Chinese rescuers have pulled 11 gold miners to safety, 14 days after they were trapped by an underground explosion, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
Key points:
- TV footage showed a miner, exhausted and blindfolded, being lifted out of the mine shaft and covered in a blanket
- The cause of the explosion that caused the workers to become trapped has not been made public
- Thousands of people die in mining accidents across China each year
Footage showed the first miner to be rescued, a black blindfold across his eyes, being lifted out of a mine shaft in the morning.
The miner was “extremely weak”, according to a post on state broadcaster CCTV’s Weibo account.
Rescue workers wrapped the barely responsive man in a blanket before taking him to…
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