Rescuers find 8 survivors 5 days after gypsum mine collapsed in eastern China

In this Dec. 28, 2015 photo provided
by China's Xinhua News Agency,
rescuers try to contact the trapped
people at a collapsed mine in Pingyi
County, east China's Shandong
Province. Chinese state media said
rescuers have found eight surviving
miners who have been trapped for
five days by a collapse at a gypsum
mine in eastern China. (Guo Xulei/
Xinhua News Agency vi AP) NO
SALES.

Rescuers using
infrared cameras to peer into
darkness at a wrecked mine in
eastern China on Wednesday found
eight surviving miners who were
trapped for five days after a collapse
so violent it registered as a seismic
event.
The disaster on Christmas Day at the
gypsum mine in Shandong province
killed at least one worker. Nine
others remain missing, and 11 made
it to safety or were rescued early on.
Infrared cameras detected the
surviving miners waving their hands
Wednesday, and rescuers were
drawing up plans to pull them to
safety, said state broadcaster China
Central Television, or CCTV. The
rescuers sent provisions
underground to the trapped men,
China's official Xinhua News Agency
said.
The workers were weak with hunger
but otherwise were in good health,
CCTV reported. They told rescuers
they were in passages underground
that were intact.
Two days after the collapse, the
owner of the mine, Ma Congbo,
jumped into a well and drowned in an
apparent suicide. Four top officials in
Pingyi county, where the mine is
located, have been fired.
The collapse at the gypsum mine
was so massive that the national
earthquake bureau detected a quiver
with a magnitude of 4.0 at the mine
site.
Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral that
is widely used in construction.
China's mines have long been the
world's deadliest, but safety
improvements have reduced deaths
in recent years. Last year, 931
people were killed in mine accidents
in China, drastically down from the
year 2002, when nearly 7,000 mine

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