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Nineteen coal miners were rescued Tuesday from their flooded pit in northeastern China after being trapped underground for a week. Read the full story.
China Daily via Reuters
Rescuers carry a survivor out of a flooded pit at Hengtai coal mine in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang province, China, on August 30. Nineteen of the trapped miners in a flooded mine in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province were rescued early Tuesday morning, bringing the total number of rescued miners to 22, Xu Guangguo, vice governor of the province said, Xinhua News Agency reported.