Four Chinese miners were rescued Friday one-by-one after being trapped 700 feet underground in a gypsum mine for 36 days, according to Chinese state media.
They were among 17 miners trapped when the mine collapsed in December in eastern China's Pingyi County in Shandong Province.
Rescuers extracted the workers after drilling two access tunnels, the official Xinhua news agency reports .
Dramatic footage broadcast by China's CCTV showed one of men, strapped to a harness and clinging to a cable, being pulled to the surface.
More than 400 people were involved in the rescue effort, which initially involved drilling four tunnels to try to locate the trapped miners, Xinhua reports.

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