Two miners who escaped from a collapsed pit in Beijing ate coal and drank urine to survive, Chinese media has reported.
He described how they filled two water bottles with urine, saying: "You can only take small sips, and when you've finished, you just want to cry."
"At the end, we were so hungry we ate coal and thought it tasted delicious," Meng Xianchen said.
The brothers said they had been hopeful of being rescued until the sound of digging outside stopped.
Then they "totally had a breakdown" and eventually began to use humour to help them get through the ordeal.
"I told my brother 'your wife is going to have to marry someone else'", Meng Xianyou told the newspaper.
His brother replied: "I laughed too. I said my wife could find a rich man in Shenyang.
"But then I thought, I have two children and my wife is ugly, so it would be hard for her to remarry."
clipped from: news.bbc.co.uk