16 metres below, and each day he has to go down to check the harvest.
Man digs 50ft hole to fish - in his kitchen A Chinese man has dug a 50ft hole inside his house to go fishing. Li Huiyan, of Chongqing, hired 30 villagers for six months to dig the hole in his kitchen to reach an underground river. The river had been over ground but had disappeared 30 years ago when the local authorities bombed part of a mountain to pave a road. Li explained: "The river used to have so many fish, and by simply putting a net there, hundreds of fish would be caught." After digging his pit down to the river, Li installed a fishing net across it and regularly hauls out fish, so far earning his family nearly ÂŁ2,000. "I sell the fish at a wholesale price of 24 yuan (ÂŁ2.15p) per kilo, but 36 yuan (ÂŁ3.20p) per kilo for retail," he said. Li built ladders from his kitchen to the river
Woman cured by lightning A Serbian woman has been cured of a deadly heart condition - when she was struck by lightning. Shocked doctors who'd been treating Nada Acimovich, 51, for arrhythmia discovered she had made a complete recovery. The condition is normally treated with mild electric shocks to reset the heart's rhythm. Mrs Acimovich was saved from death by her rubber soled shoes but the electric jolt put her heartbeat back to normal, say medics. "In the first place she's lucky to be alive because of the lightning strike, but she's now going to live for much longer too," explained one. 'Pool got my daughter pregnant' A Polish mum is suing an Egyptian hotel after claiming her daughter got pregnant using their mixed swimming pool. The bizarre claim surfaced as Magdalena Kwiatkowska demanded compensation after her 13-year-old daughter came back from the family holiday expecting a baby. Tourist authorities in Warsaw confirmed they had received the complaint which states that the girl conceived because of stray sperm in the pool. "The mother is adamant that her daughter didn't meet any boys while she was there and is determined to go ahead with the case," said one travel industry source. (well they do always tell you not to drink the water!)