Trapped miners ate coal, drank urine Notme

Two Chinese brothers survived six days after the illegal mine where they were working collapsed. They had no food, water or light, just their surviving instinct and their experience.They were forced to eat coal to feel their bellies full and drink their urine from discarded bottles founded inside the mine, and cranking jokes about their wives."I told my brother, 'your wife is going to have to marry someone else'," Meng Xianyou told the Beijing News.His brother added: "I laughed too, I said my wife could find a rich man in Shenyang. But then I thought, I have two children and my wife is ugly, so it'd be hard for her to remarry."Relatives of Meng Xianchen and Meng Xianyou thought that the miners are dead and burned ghost money at the entrance to the pit and left offerings of steamed buns, cakes and canned food to assist the "deceased" miners in the afterlife.After the sound of the rescuing team diggings stopped the brothers had a breakdown."At the beginning, our mobile phone still had power so there was a little bit of light. Two days later the battery ran out so we could only feel with our fingers and listen," said Meng Xianyou.But then they tried to dig their way out by excavating three horizontal tunnels. Thinking that they were going in the wrong direction they started on a vertical tunnel, which led them to the surface.

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