11 rescued after two weeks underground following China gold mine explosion

Rescuers carry a miner who was trapped in a gold mine in Qixia City in east China’s Shandong Province (Xinhua News Agency/AP)

Eleven workers trapped for two weeks by an explosion inside a Chinese gold mine have been brought safely to the surface.

State broadcaster CCTV showed workers being hauled up one by one in baskets, their eyes shielded to protect them after so many days in darkness.