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Rescuers find 8 survivors 5 days after a gypsum mine collapsed in China

BEIJING – Chinese state media say rescuers have found eight surviving miners who have been trapped for five days by a collapse at a gypsum mine in eastern China.

The cave-in on Christmas Day in the eastern province of Shandong killed one worker and left an additional nine missing.

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The official Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday that rescuers had yet to reach the survivors but had contacted them and were sending provisions to them underground.

READ MORE: Mine collapse in China traps 18 workers; 11 rescued

Two days after the collapse, the owner of the mine, Ma Congbo, drowned after he jumped into a well in an apparent suicide during rescue efforts.

Four top officials in Pingyi county, where the mine is located, have since been sacked.

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The collapse was so violent that the national earthquake bureau detected a quiver there

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