Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 22:14 GMT+7
A rescuer carries a victim out of a collapsed tunnel in the Da Dang hydropower station incident in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam in late 2014. Photo: Mai Vinh / Tuoi Tre
In a moment of life and death, four miners were pulled out of a collapsed pit, covered in peat.
It was 8:00 pm on January 14, 2020, when a mining pit of Quang Hanh Coal Company in Cam Pha District, Quang Ninh Province, cratered, trapping five workers.
Quang Ninh is a province famous for coal mines in northern Vietnam.
A glimmer of hope
“Off to handle an incident,” Tran Xuan Thang, head of Ha Long Mine Emergency Station, texted his wife before creeping into the pit with teammates.