Chinese citizens, rescue workers mobilise to save 21 trapped gold miners

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