Three workers who were trapped in a mine in a remote area of northwestern British Columbia were brought to safety after more than 60 hours underground. Bernard Wessels, the global safety chief for the mine's operator,

Crews are racing to rescue three miners trapped underground after a collapse at the Red Chris open-pit copper and gold mine in northern B.C. They managed to get into an emergency refuge before a second cave-in blocked their escape.

Thousands of people were working on the informal mining site in eastern Congo, in an area controlled by an armed militia.