A survivor is pulled out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after being trapped. Dozens remain missing

A man has been pulled alive out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after dozens of informal miners were trapped under landslides caused by heavy rain, rescuers said Wednesday. A statement by Zambia’s Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit said the 49-year-old survivor was rescued Tuesday night, and that he told rescuers that he had been struggling for five days to find a way out of one of the collapsed tunnels at the open-pit copper mine near the city of Chingola, around 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital, Lusaka. Zambia mines minister Paul Kabuswe said 25 families in the region have come forward to report missing relatives.