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Workers trapped for more than a week in a Chinese gold mine asked for pickles and porridge to be dropped to them while they wait to be rescued, state media reported Tuesday.
BBC News Published image captionRescuers have opened a communication channel with the trapped miners via a thin tunnel Eleven miners trapped underground after an explosion at a Chinese mine have said they are grateful for nutritional liquids and medicine delivered via a long thin communication tunnel, but would really like some pork sausages. The miners have been able to communicate via a new telephone line. Rescuers had initially lowered rations on a cable, and received back a note saying "Don't stop trying to reach us". Eleven other miners remain missing in the gold mine, their fate unclear...
Workers trapped for more than a week in a Chinese gold mine have asked rescuers to send pickles and porridge
Twelve miners are still alive after an explosion in Beijing trapped 22 gold miners hundreds of yards underground for over a week after an explosion near the city of Qixia in eastern Shandong province.
JINAN, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers and workers trapped underground in a gold mine in east China Shandong Province had a phone conversation on Monday, local aut