South Korean rescue workers on Saturday pulled a man from a collapsed subway construction site near the capital of Seoul.
Officials continued searching for another person believed to be trapped inside.
Im Gwang-sik, an official with Gwangmyeong city’s fire department, said the survivor was trapped about 98 feet underground in the rubble for approximately 13 hours.
The survivor was conscious when he was found and taken to a nearby hospital.
Gwangmyeong city authorities had earlier withdrawn workers from the construction site and halted traffic in the area after receiving reports that a ventilation shaft was at risk of collapsing.
Authorities were deploying dozens of rescue workers and vehicles and three cranes to search for the other worker who remains unaccounted for.
