BENGUET - Two miners were found alive Monday afternoon, September 29, a week after they and 14 others entered a mine tunnel in Itogon, Benguet that was swamped by floodwaters spawned by typhoon “Nina” (international codename: Hagupit).
Antonio “Ngitit” Pagulayan, 22, and Jose Panyo Jr., 22, were rescued at 3:15 p.m. from Shaft 114 level 700 of the gold field owned by Benguet Mining Corporation at Purok 7, Gold Field Poblacion, Itogon, Neoman dela Cruz, regional director of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau (DENR-MGB) in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), said in a phone interview.
Rescuers and relatives applauded loudly after the two men were brought out on stretchers—very hungry but in apparent good health—from tunnels in the mountain township of Itogon, said Mines and Geosciences Bureau officer George Baywong, who supervised the rescue.
The two miners managed to survive by standing on a ledge in one of the tunnels about 400-700 feet (120-210 meters) below ground where there was enough oxygen to keep them alive. They drank the water that flooded the tunnel but had nothing else, Baywong said. (Inquirer.net)
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