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Peru delays rescue of nine trapped miners
Has it even been a year since the last one? These poor people and their families.
http://news.yahoo.com/rescue-trapped-peru-miners-delayed-060629068.html
A rescue operation to free nine miners trapped since last week in a mine in southern Peru could be delayed to two to three days, a top official announced.
Oscar Valdes, cabinet chief to Peru's President Ollanta Humala, told reporters overnight that getting to the miners' location could take two or three days longer than anticipated due to new roof collapses inside the Cabeza de Negro mine, about 325 kilometers (200 miles) south of Lima.
The miners have been trapped 250 meters (820 feet) underground in a horizontal tunnel since Thursday when a shaft collapsed.
The nine, aged 22 to 59 and including a father and son, were not injured and remain together. They were being supplied with oxygen, water and soup through a metal tube that they also use to communicate with rescue workers.
Some were able to speak with relatives who are staying near the mine at an improvised camp of about 80 people that also includes police, firefighters and other miners.
While their health was generally sound, some of the miners were suffering from anxiety, not unusual for the emergency situation and its risks.
"We are depressed. Please, get us out of here," begged Jacinto Pariona in a trembling voice from the back of the area where he was trapped with his colleagues.
His wife, Nancy Fernandez, fought back the tears as she tried to boost his spirits, chatting calmly through a hose, as rescue workers tried to rush to get the trapped men out.
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