Time is running tight as the workers’ individual oxygen kits are about to run out.
Desperate rescue efforts failed to pull the men to safety after the earlier rescue of eight subcontractors.
Men reunited with their families after successful operation to free them after fears of gas leaks and more rock falls.
Appalling conditions in Alrosa's Mir mine forces end to search on submerged level 310 some 11 days after devastating flood.
A methane explosion at Mine No. 7 in the Prokopyevsky district of Kemerovo region led to the deaths of four miners.
Latest survivors give harrowing accounts of how they feared they would drown in underground tidal wave.
After 5 days still no sign of lost workers but search continues round the clock as relatives wait and pray.
Sea creatures in ‘Whale Jail’ are ‘trapped’ under ice amid growing concern over their fate.