Anxious wait for families, friends of trapped miners
By Qiu Bo and Yang Jun | China Daily | Updated: 2011-07-05 07:52
PINGTANG, Guizhou - Getting diarrhea from drinking too much may just have saved Lan Zhiming's life.
The 22-year-old was scheduled to work the same shift as the 23 miners trapped in a coal shaft in Southwest China's Guizhou province. Instead, he was playing online games on Monday as rescuers desperately pumped out floodwater.
"I woke up with diarrhea at about 4 am, a few hours before my shift," said Lan, who explained that he later walked off site when mine owner Zhang Jiaqing refused to let him take sick leave.
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