MANILA, Philippines (AP) ? Rescuers who pleaded for help from tribal deity say they have saved a miner trapped for a week in a collapsed tunnel in the northern Philippines.
Police Supt. Mario Mayam-es, a member of the Igorot indigenous group in Benguet province, said their efforts to pull out Felipe Pilmaco finally paid off Friday after rescuers offered a black pig to tribal god Kabunian.
Pilmaco turned 33 years old Tuesday inside the tunnel in Bokod township where he had been trapped since Aug. 2.
The small-scale miner survived on food, oxygen and a phone delivered through a galvanized pipe inserted between boulders and mud.
The town's doctor said Pilmaco was fine except for dehydration, minor cuts and an eye infection.
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