Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Chilean Miracle: Buried 33 Miners Rescued After 69 Days

•Chilean miner Osman Araya (R) is welcomed by his wife Angelica as he comes out of the Fenix capsule after being brought to the surface this morning following a 10-week ordeal in the collapsed San Jose mine, near Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, Chile. Araya was the sixth from the 33 trapped miners to be lifted from underground.
Sixty-nine days after they were trapped almost 700 metres underground, the 33 Chilean  miners were being rescued this morning one after the other. They are the first human  beings to have stayed underground that long, that deep, and still come out alive.
Ten miners had been rescued safely at the time of going to press this morning. They were  trapped on 5 August 2010 after a cave-in at the mine in Northern Chile.
The first miner to be rescued was Mario Sepulveda, who brought a souvenir with him — a  bag of rocks. The rocks, which Sepulveda gave out to rescue workers, appeared to be  wrapped in silver tinfoil.
Hundreds of people watching on a TV feed giggled as he brought a touch of humour to a  tense and riveting operation to free him and 32 other men from a collapsed mine in  northern Chile.

Read more: http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/10/13/chilean-miracle-buried-33-miners-rescued-after-69-days/

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