Chilean Miners Await Rescue

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COPIANO, CHILE (GaeaTimes.com)- Chilean authorities are trying their best to rescue the 33 miners who have been trapped underground for the past three weeks following an accident earlier this month. With the aim of providing an impetus to the rescue efforts, a massive drilling machine had been brought at the site of the accident to drill a shaft with depth 700-meter through which a capsule would be lowered to lift the miners one by one. Given the fact that the rescue operation to bring the Chilean miners to safety can take months, a great deal of psychological as well as physical ordeal awaits them.

Till the time the Chilean miners are actually rescued, they would have to spend months in the dingy conditions where 33 of them have to live in a small, congested space without a toilet with the least amount of air circulation. Chilean authorities have revealed that the miners are being supplied with food, clothes, medicines as well as other essential commodities. In the meanwhile, officials have added that on Sunday, a communication line would be set up so that the trapped miners for the very first time get the opportunity to talk to their family members. The mine along the Chilean desert which is being called Camp Hope has been thronged by the family of the trapped miners and they have kept a constant vigil over the situation.

At the same time, on Sunday, in his weekly message from the Vatican City Pope Benedict XVI said that he had been praying for the Chilean miners who have been trapped underground for weeks now.