With a shovel and even digging directly with your hands. Thus they have managed to get several miners who had been trapped after a collapse in a mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A rescue that leaves images of a man tirelessly digging in a mountain of rubble, until, after several minutes with the shovel in hand, one of the trapped workers manages to appear. It is then when, as can be seen in the video on these lines, joy and cheers break out among the dozens of people who had come to help.

As soon as he saves the first miner, another man pounces on the mountain of earth that blocks the entrance. No shovel now With only his hands, he manages to save another, the second survivor to see the light. However, the stones and rubble prevent access to the interior of the farm and do not stop falling until another landslide occurs. Even so, the rescuers do not give up their efforts until they achieve save, one by one, the nine miners that they had been buried.

It has happened at a gold mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There, the terrible working conditions, coupled with heavy rains, have ended up sinking the mine where the event took place. Luckily, the workers inside have managed to survive, but uncontrolled exploitation and non-existent security measures cause these incidents to be repeated throughout Africa.

In 2020 alone, at least 68 people died in separate Congolese mine collapses and this same month of March two people died buried inside another mine.