Rescuers find 8 people alive 5 days after Chinese mine collapse

The gypsum mine in Shandong province, China. — (Image credit: Twitter.com/PDChina)

Five days after a collapse at a gypsum mine in China's Shandong province killed at least one person and trapped more than a dozen others,r escuers using infrared cameras have detected eight survivors:

The team is now working on a plan to get the miners out. China Central Television reports that the survivors are in good health but are very hungry, and they relayed to rescuers that there are still underground passages intact despite the massive Christmas Day collapse. Two days after the incident — which caused a magnitude 4.0 seismic event — the mine's owner, Ma Congbo, drowned after jumping into a well; four county officials have also been fired in connection to the collapse. Nine people remain missing.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.