Trapped coal miners in China dig their way to safety
Afp, Beijing
Sixteen miners trapped for 14 hours in a northwestern China coal mine have dug themselves out, state press reported Thursday. The miners were trapped in the Deshun coal mine near Lanzhou city, Gansu province, mid-morning Wednesday when 1.4 million cubic meters (49 million cubic feet) of mud slid down a mountain and blocked the mine entrance, Xinhua news agency said. "We were frightened at the beginning, but we soon calmed down because we knew we were not far from the ground surface," the report quoted a miner surnamed Wang as saying.
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