33 miners trapped 17 days are alive
China Daily | Updated: 2010-08-24 07:52
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Chile's President Sebastian Pinera holds up a plastic bag containing a message, from miners trapped in a collapsed mine that reads in Spanish "All 33 of us are well inside the shelter" in Copiapo, Chile, on Sunday. The miners have been trapped below the surface of the mine since the main access collapsed on Aug 5 due to tons of falling rock. Jose Manuel De La Maza / Associated Press |
SANTIAGO/COPIAPO, Chile - Chilean rescue teams prepared to launch a potentially months-long bid on Monday to retrieve 33 miners found alive and in apparently good health after more than two weeks trapped deep underground.
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