Nine reported alive after a week underground
More survivors may still be underground
Chinese state television says nine miners have been pulled to safety after spending more than a week trapped in a flooded coal mine in China.
China Central Television showed images early on Monday morning of the miners being taken away to hospital in ambulances to hospitals after being rescued.
They were among 153 miners trapped since 28 March when workers broke a wall into an abandoned shaft, flooding the mine in Shanxi province in the north of the country. About 3,000 people have been working around the clock since then to pump out water. There had been reports of tapping noises coming from underground pipes, and food and milk had been pushed through to where the miners were thought to be.
The survivors were immediately sent to ahospital for medical treatment. The Chinese newspaper, Xinhua, reported that blood pressure and heart rates remained normal despite the surviviors being trapped in the shaft for over a week.
One of the survivors has been named as Li Guoyu, aged 38, from central China's Henan Province. Mr Li said he and his fellow survivors had been unable to pass urine for two days, because they dared not drink the murky water flowing in the tunnel.
144 other miners remain trapped, but rescue workers report hearing banging on metal pipes, indicating further signs of life.
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