Rescue teams have saved 45 miners trapped underground after a rock blast in a Chinese coal mine, CCTV state television reported.
Eight people had been confirmed dead after Thursday's accident at the Qianqiu colliery in the central province of Henan, it said.
Another 21 had earlier been brought out.
Emergency personnel had to dig a tunnel at a depth of several hundred metres to reach the trapped men.
CCTV television showed miners emerging from the colliery's main lift more than 36 hours after the blast.
Most were able to walk, some were still wearing their miner's lamps, and all of them looked tired and had blackened faces.
The last miner to be rescued was carried out on a stretcher and immediately taken away by ambulance.
While mining accidents are common in China, it is unusual for so many people to be successfully brought to the surface alive.
The operation is the most successful such effort in the country since April 2010, when 115 miners were rescued after eight days trapped underground at a mine in the north of the country.
In Thursday's accident the miners were trapped by a rock burst - a violent explosion caused by huge pressure - moments after a minor 2.9 magnitude earthquake, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
It is not clear whether the earthquake directly caused the accident.
A total of 74 people were in the shaft at the time of the blast, CCTV said.
