The miraculous escape in Chile
Miner Osman Araya hugs his wife after arriving as the sixth miner to be hoisted to the surface in Copiapo on Wednesday. The 33 trapped miners began the 625-meter ascent through the rescue shaft, just wider than a man's shoulders, as their two-month ordeal after a cave-in draws to an end. Hugo Infante-Government of Chile / Reuters |
One by one, trapped miners lifted up to the ground; Chinese machinery on standby at rescue site
BEIJING/SAN JOSE MINE, CHILE - Sixteen of Chile's 33 trapped miners were hoisted to safety in a capsule barely wider than a man's shoulders on Wednesday, cheering, punching the air and hugging their families as they emerged after two months deep underground.
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