Chinese workers in quake rescue after cliff ordeal

SHIFANG/CHENGDU,China-More than eight days after the devastating earthquake in southwestern China, around 10 workers were rescued on Tuesday from a remote mountain cliff where they had been trapped by fallen boulders. Nearly 40 of their colleagues with the telecommunications company were killed, but the rescued workers said others were still alive on the mountain. "Please tell everyone to press on with the rescue. People are still alive and they are waiting. They must be saved. We are talking about lives," said Li Tengchang, 38, his voice shaking with emotion.Li and the rest of the survivors were winched to safety by helicopter on Tuesday and rushed to the West China Hospital in Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan.
The workers were building an electricity generation station on a mountain near Shifang town when the 7.9 magnitude quake struck on May 12."We survived on rain water and 20 kg of rice between us. We had a little radio and we heard how catastrophic this earthquake was," Li said.
"When the wait wore on, we thought no one would come save us and we would probably die," said Li, who was being treated for kidney damage."I survived purely on my will. I told myself I had to live and I had to survive. I have a 60-year-old mother, a wife and two young children," said the father of two.One of the workers managed to scramble down the mountain.

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