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LEAD: 45 workers rescued from coal mine after shaft collapse
Nov 5, 2011, 7:49 GMT
Beijing - Rescuers pulled out the last of the 45 surviving miners who were trapped for 40 hours following a rock slide in the shaft of a central China coal mine Saturday.
Eight miners died in the accident Thursday night in the Qianqiu coal mine. Twenty-two managed to escape, but 45 others were trapped.
The last surviving worker was seen waving as he walked out of the mine with the help of rescuers around mid-day, state media said.
A rock burst occurred in the mine following a magnitude-2.9 earthquake, Xinhua news agency said.
The mine, with an annual production capacity of 2.1 million tons, belongs to a state-owned coal enterprise in Henan province.
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