8 miners rescued

KADOMA, Zimbabwe — Eight subsistence miners trapped underground for several days after heavy flooding in Zimbabwe have been rescued, though dozens of their co-workers are still missing and feared dead.

Rescuers Saturday pulled the exhausted, muddied survivors from the ground.

Later came the retrieval of the dead.

One by one the bodies were pulled from one of the tunnels in the gold fields.

Dozens of the smallscale gold miners were caught underground Tuesday on the outskirts of Kadoma, west Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, when a dam wall collapsed and water rushed into the nearby mining tunnels.

The government said 60-70 people were working underground at the time of the accident.