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| China Shandong: Miners 'rescued after 36 days' | |
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| The first three of four surviving Chinese miners have been rescued after being trapped for 36 days underground, Chinese state media say. | |
| They were lifted to safety at the gypsum mine in eastern Shandong province. | |
| China's CCTV showed dramatic footage of one of the men appearing on the surface and then being taken to hospital. | |
| Seventeen people were trapped after the mine caved in late December; four of them were later found alive. | |
| One of the trapped miners was declared dead. The fate of the others is unknown. | |
| Owner's suicide | |
| For several weeks, rescuers were tunnelling down to the surviving men, and water and liquids were passed down through a narrow borehole. | |
| The mine collapse in the town of Pingyi on the morning of 25 December was so violent that it registered at China's earthquake monitoring centre. | |
| Local media later reported that police had enacted "enforcement measures" against several bosses at Yurong company which owns the mine, while local party officials had been sacked. | |
| The company chairman Ma Congbo, drowned himself by jumping into a mine well several days after the incident. | |
| China has a long history of industrial accidents. This incident came days after a landslide caused by construction waste in southern China left dozens of people missing and presumed dead. | |
| The nation's mines have long been the world's deadliest, but safety improvements have reduced deaths in recent years. | |
| Gypsum is a soft sulphate mineral that is used in building and construction. |