The last miner trapped in a flooded colliery in Shaanxian County, central China's Henan Province, is brought to the surface on August 1, after rescuers managed to extract all victims of the adverse weather sweeping the region.

The flooding occurred after heavy rainstorms, and immediately swamped the Dongfeng Shaft at Zhijian Coal Mine, where 102 miners were working deep underground. Fighting for their lives, miners clung to life for 76 hours before they were finally lifted to safety.

More than 300 rescuers were organized. In an innovative method of keeping the miners alive, they poured hundreds of liters of milk through a pipe to help trapped miners stay nourished. Meanwhile, they pumped about 2,000 cubic meters of water out of the mine and cleared away the silt in the shaft to rescue the miners.