Chinese citizens, rescue workers mobilise to save 21 trapped gold miners
- Date: 21-Jan-2021
- Source: France 24
- Sector:Oil & Gas
- Country:Middle East
Chinese citizens, rescue workers mobilise to save 21 trapped gold miners
Issued on: 21/01/2021 - 16:45
An explosion in the Hushan gold mine on January 10 in Qixia, a city in China's eastern Shandong province, killed one miner and trapped 21 others underground. After a week without contact, rescue workers established communication with the miners on January 18, when the latter sent up a handwritten note via a shaft that workers had drilled from the surface. Images from Chinese social media show rescue workers and citizens alike mobilised to aid the miners, in an urgent mission that