Miners Rescued

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SGnAZ
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Miners Rescued

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Manila,Philippines-Five gold miners have been rescued after being trapped for a week in a flooded underground tunnel in the mountains in the northern Philippines. Divers were working to extricate another survivor from an inundated mine shaft and hoped to find eight other missing miners.The bodies of two miners were retrieved from the gold mine in the mountain township of Itogon on thursday. The first two miners rescued monday managed to survive by standing on a ledge in one of the tunnels about 400-700 feet below ground where there was enough oxygen to keep them alive.
They drank the water that flooded the tunnel but had nothing else.
The tunnels,dug decades ago in mountainous Benguet province,were abandoned in the 1990's by a gold mining company,which posted guards at two entrances to prevent accidents.
The trapped miners-who were working on their own with no permit-dug a narrow passageway to gain access to the tunnels.
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