China mine accident: first worker rescued after two weeks underground

TV footage showed the ‘extremely weak’ miner lifted out of the goldmine, after 22 were trapped from a 10 January blast in Qixia

A miner has been rescued from a gold mine in northern China and rushed to hospital for treatment, state broadcaster CCTV said, after being trapped 14 days below ground by an explosion.

The miner was “extremely weak”, according to a post on CCTV’s Weibo microblog site. TV footage showed the exhausted miner, a black blindfold across his eyes, being lifted out of the mine shaft and covered in a blanket before being carried away by rescue workers.

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