[1]Chinese rescuers lifted all the 29 miners trapped in a flooded mine in sichuan in south western China after a 30-hour operation, apparently taking a cue from a dramatic rescue in Chile last month.
Trapped miners were pulled out alive out of the flooded pit one-by-one in the rescue bid beamed live countrywide, a day after the accident happened at 11 am on Sunday, official state media 'Xinhua' reported.
The trapped miners came out of Batian coal mine in Neijiang, to a loud applause as emergency vehicles and hundreds of workers and journalists were at hand to see them come out of the ordeal.
Rescued miners, with no visible injuries but looking weak, were rushed to a hospital in Neijiang city and the people's hospital of weiyuan county, xinhua reported.
China's mines are the deadliest in the world with more than 2,600 miners reported killed in coal mine accidents alonein 2009.
Most of the accidents in China occur in illegally operated coal mines, but xinhua said the Batian mines had stopped production and were being upgraded to increase their output from 50,000 to 60,000 tonnes per year.
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