Beijing - Nine workers have been rescued alive from a Chinese coal mine, more than a week after the facility flooded trapping 153 miners underground, state television said early on Monday.
China Central Television showed live footage from the Wangjialing mine in China's northern Shanxi province of several of the rescued men being rushed to hospital on stretchers.
The footage showed them wrapped in green blankets with towels covering their eyes to protect them from the light after more than 179 hours trapped in the flooded mine.
An official from the work safety watchdog was quoted as saying from the scene that there were still hopes more workers could be rescued alive.
The accident occurred on March 28 when workers apparently dug into an older adjacent mine that had been shut down and filled with water, press reports have said. - AFP