Miner rescued 14 days after explosion trapped 22 workers in China

A miner has been rescued from a gold mine in northern China and rushed to hospital for treatment after being trapped 14 days below ground by an explosion.

A trapped miner is lifted from a gold mine in Qixia City, east China’s Shandong Province. Photo: AFP

State broadcaster CCTV said today the miner was “extremely weak”, according to a post on CCTV’s Weibo microblog site.

TV footage showed the exhausted miner, a black blindfold across his eyes, being lifted out of the mine shaft and covered in a blanket before being carried away by rescue workers.

Twenty-two workers were trapped in the Hushan mine by the January 10 blast in Qixia, a major gold-producing region under the administration of Yantai in coastal Shandong province.

One miner has died and 11 have not been in contact with rescue teams, according to a Xinhua report from last week.

-Reuters