Man pulled out of Zambian mine a week later

A body of a miner was also recovered from the site. Pic/AP

A man has been pulled alive out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after dozens of informal miners were trapped under landslides caused by heavy rain, rescuers said Wednesday.

The 49-year-old survivor was rescued Tuesday night, according to a statement by Zambia's Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit. He told rescuers he had been struggling for five days to find a way out of one of the collapsed tunnels at the open-pit copper mine near the city of Chingola, around 400 km north of the capital, Lusaka, the statement said.

A body was also recovered a few hours after the miner's rescue but was yet to be identified, it added. It was the first to be retrieved following the disaster last week. More than 30 miners may still be trapped under the rubble and debris in three separate tunnels at the Seseli mine in Zambia's Copperbelt province.

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