Mobile phone call saves miners

Twenty-seven people have been rescued unharmed from a collapsed mine after one of them raised the alarm using a mobile phone from deep underground.

The team was trapped several hundred yards below the surface at the Mount Clear mine, owned by Lihir Gold in Australia's southern Victoria state, when the collapse happened on Sunday, police and mine chiefs said.

With breathable air in short supply, the men huddled in an emergency chamber in the mine and made a call on a mobile phone.

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