Five bodies found after "miracle" China mine rescue

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Five bodies found after "miracle" China mine rescueFive bodies found after "miracle" China mine rescueThe survivors ate coal, bark and paper to #xget through theirIndustrial Fabricsordeal and drank the filthy water that surrounded them. Some built rafts in a failed bid to escape, or constructed rough platforms to try and keep above the flooding, state media said.

Officials said 153 miners were trapped in the unfinished Wangjialing mine in Xiangning, in the northern province of Shanxi, when water gushed in more than a week ago.

Rescuers pulled out 115 on Sunday and Monday,Energy saving lamp, with media and officials hailing a "miracle" that came on a national holiday to honor the dead.

The high number of survivors was rare good news for China's perilous mining industry, the deadliest in the world with thousands killed every year in floods, explosions, collapses and other accidents. Shanxi is the heartland of the coal industry.

A special medical train ferried the worst injured to well-equippedIndustrial Fabricshospitals in the provincial capital on Tuesday, while others were recovering fast.

"I want to have meat. Sausage would be better," the official Xinhua agency quoted one survivor saying after he was handed a bowl of egg and tomato noodles. The men were initially too weak to eat anything but gruel and glucose said Liu Qiang, deputy director of the medical team at rescue headquarters.

Rescuers braved the floodwaters and fluctuating mine gas once officials deemed a week of frantic pumping had lowered water levels enough to make a rescue possible. Tapping sounds on a pipe on Friday had raised hopes some miners were still alive.

"We reached 200 meters underground by raft only to find that there was not enough space for the raft to continue as the water level was too high. So we jumped into the water, swam toward #xthe trappedIndustrial Fabricsminers and pulled them out," said rescuer Wang Kai.
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