Eleven workers trapped for two weeks inside a gold mine in China were brought safely to the surface on Sunday, a landmark achievement for an industry long blighted by disasters and high death tolls. State broadcaster CCTV showed workers being hauled up one-by-one in baskets, their eyes shielded to protect them after so many days in darkness. Hundreds of rescue workers and officials stood at attention and applauded as the workers were brought up from the mine in Qixia, a jurisdiction under Yantai in the eastern coastal province of Shandong. Some of the miners were too weak to walk to waiting ambulances after Sunday's rescue in eastern China's Shandong province. The official China Daily newspaper said on its website that seven of the workers were able to walk to ambulances on their own.

Source: CBC News January 24, 2021 12:01 UTC