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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.

Anxious wait for families, friends of trapped miners

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