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Images from the state channel CCTV show how the first miner was lifted out of a shaft in the morning. The man is in “poor physical condition,” according to the CCTV channel. In the following hours, ten miners were taken from another part of the mine. They were brought out in groups. One of them was injured.
The January 10 blast had severely damaged the exit ladder and communications system, preventing contact with workers at the gold mine near Qixia city in eastern Shandong province. A miner was killed.
Emergency services drilled a hole in the mine and heard “knocking noises,” according to state news agency Xinhua. Local officials tried to lower food and telephone lines into the mine under construction.
Rescue workers drill a hole near the mine that was cut off from the outside world after an explosion in Qixia in eastern China.
Ⓒ ANP / HH
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Two officials were fired after the accident. Mining accidents are common in China, where the industry has a poor safety record and regulations are often poorly enforced.
In December, 23 miners died after being trapped in a mine in the southwestern city of Chongqing. A few months earlier, 16 others were killed from carbon monoxide poisoning after being trapped underground in another coal mine in the city.
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