2 trapped South Korean miners rescued
SEOUL: Two South Korean miners who were rescued after being trapped underground for nine days said they had lived on instant coffee powder and water falling from the ceiling of a collapsed shaft.
The two men, aged 62 and 56, were pulled out to safety on Friday night from a collapsed shaft at a zinc mine in the southeastern town of Bonghwa. They had been stranded there after a heap of earth fell inside the shaft on October 26.
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