Bosnian mine accident: 29 rescued, 5 miners buried
Source: AP-Excite
By SABINA NIKSIC and AMER COHADZIC
ZENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — One by one, rescue workers pulled 29 miners out of a trouble-plagued coal mine Friday after it had collapsed a day earlier in central Bosnia. Officials halted rescue efforts, believing that five men who remained deep underground were dead.
Their faces smeared with coal dust and lined with worry and exhaustion, the rescued men emerged from the Zenica mine to cries of joy from their families after spending the night trapped more than 500 meters (1,600 feet) below the surface.
"He is alive!" Admira Durakovic, whose husband Amir was among the miners, cried out before breaking down, sobbing and shaking.
The men looked tired and shaky. Twenty-six miners were taken to a hospital, six of them badly hurt, but none suffered life-threatening injuries, doctors said.
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Coal miners carry out a fellow miner, center, who was injured while he was trapped in coal mine Raspotocje in Zenica,70 kms north of Sarajevo , Bosnia, on Friday, Sept.5, 2014 . Rescuers on Friday were pulling out some of the 34 miners who had been trapped deep inside a coal mine that collapsed in central Bosnia. Tired, their faces smeared with coal dust, the men came out of the Zenica mine one by one, after spending the night more than 500 meters (1,600 feet) below the ground. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
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