The miraculous escape in Chile
By Wang Yan, He Wei and Wang Ying | China Daily | Updated: 2010-10-14 07:54
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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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