30-01-2016 04:26 via news.yahoo.com

Four miners rescued in China after 36 days underground

Four miners trapped underground for 36 days in a collapsed Chinese gypsum mine were pulled out late Friday, a rescue hailed as a "miracle" in a country with a poor track record on industrial accidents. The final operation to save the men trapped more than 200 metres (660 feet) underground took two hours as they were hauled up to the surface one by one in a rescue "capsule", according to state broadcaster CCTV. "It is a miracle," said Zeng Kunyuan on microblog Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter
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