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The Plight of the Chilean Miners
Yesterday Chilean President Sebastián Piñera made his fifth visit to the copper and gold mine where 33 miners have been trapped underground for more than six weeks. Novelist Isabel Allende visited, too. Two tunnels have already been drilled, but are too small for the men to be pulled some 2000 feet to the surface.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readYesterday Chilean President Sebastián Piñera made his fifth visit to the copper and gold mine where 33 miners have been trapped underground for more than six weeks. Novelist Isabel Allende visited, too. Two tunnels have already been drilled, but are too small for the men to be pulled some 2000 feet to the surface. Today, the men got some good news. A massive oil-company drill has reached the scene and may be able to reach them sooner than had been expected, as Gideon Long reports for the BBC.
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