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Two Trapped Miners Tunnel Out of Chinese Mine
August 30 | Reuters UK

Two brothers who were working in an illegal mine in the Fangshan District of Beijing became trapped by a collapse. Two days later rescue efforts were stopped, but on the sixth day after the collapse they tunneled out on their own.

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