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Scouting celebrates 100th anniversary with events around the world
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published August 2, 2007
BEIJING - Onlookers burst into applause as 69 coal miners trapped in a flooded shaft for more than three days were pulled out Wednesday, a rare rescue in a country with the world's deadliest mines. The 69 were stuck underground but uninjured when the state-owned Zhijian mine in Henan province's Shan County filled with water early Sunday. Thirty-three miners managed to escape. News photos showed miners, partially clothed and covered in soot, being led from the mine supported by rescuers and paramedics. Some were placed on stretchers. They were also blindfolded, presumably to protect their eyes from the sun after being trapped underground for days. "Everyone knew we could be saved because the telephone line wasn't broken. If it had been, we'd be dead for sure," said survivor Yang Wanjun, 32.
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