A Chinese man survived emerged alive from an accidental fall into a 60-meter deep cave located in southern China on Tuesday. 

The man, a farmer who was not named, was quoted as saying that he only went out for a stroll after dinner when he suddenly fell into the cave by accident, the China News Service reported. The accident happened at Tongren, Guizhou province.

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The man reportedly became unconscious after the fall. Good thing, however, is that when he came to the following morning, he checked his mobile phone and found out that it had a signal. He was then able to call his family for help.

Farmers then went scrambling down the cave to locate him. They found him before local firefighters arrived on the scene and lifted him out of the cave. The operation took two hours to do successfully because of the depth and narrow width of the cave’s mouth.

The firefighters said that the cave was a naturally-made one, created by water cutting through the limestone scenery. It was reportedly narrow at the opening area, but had a vast, enormous area down at the bottom.

Once rescued, the farmer was seen to have sustained only scratches.

In another falling news, a Ukrainian woman reportedly survived a fall coming from the eleventh floor Wan Chai flat owned by a Russian man in Hong Kong, reports the South China Morning Post.

Oksana Birkun, a 34-year-old unemployed musician, fell from the Johnston Road-situated Everwin Mansion flat of 30-year-old Alexander Medvedev and suffered minor arm and leg injuries in addition to rib fractures. The incident reportedly happened late in February.

A source with knowledge of the matter told SCMP that several clotheslines or clothes drying racks helped slow down and break Birkun’s quick descent into a tin-sheeted canopy found on the same building’s fifth floor.

TagsCave, limestone cave, Guizhou Province, Tongren, rescue