Rescuers find 8 people alive 5 days after Chinese mine collapse
Five days after a collapse at a gypsum mine in China's Shandong province killed at least one person and trapped more than a dozen others, eight survivors have been detected by rescuers using infrared cameras.
8 survivors are found 5 days after gypsum mine collapsed in Pingyi County, E #China's Shandong. Rescue is underway pic.twitter.com/hhuDnqOlJ2
— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) December 30, 2015
The team is now working to put together a plan to get the miners out. China Central Television reports that the survivors are in good health but are very hungry, and they relayed to rescuers that there are still underground passages intact despite the massive Christmas Day collapse. Two days after the incident — which caused a magnitude 4.0 seismic event — the mine's owner, Ma Congbo, drowned after jumping into a well; four county officials have also been fired in connection to the collapse. Nine people remain missing.