China miners crawl to safety

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Source: Al Jazeera

Two Chinese miners have crawled to safety after being trapped for nearly six days in a coal mine in a rare piece of good news from the country's deadly mining industry.

Brothers Meng Xianchen and Meng Xianyou were trapped while working in an illegal mine near Beijing on August 18.

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News of the escape comes days after one of China's worst ever mining disasters hit two neighbouring pits near Xintai in the east of the country.

Some 181 miners were trapped and are now presumed dead after flood waters from a nearby river gushed into the two mines, trapping the miners underground 10 days ago.



Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E19A3239-5920-40ED-B1C4-ED8C0AA4CAF6.htm

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The local villager who ran the illegal mine fled after the accident - the bastard.

China News report here, http://www.chinanews.cn//news/2007-08-27/38896.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. I'm glad those two escaped; but it's a horrific tragedy