They had saved 33 people blocked 68 days in 2010… Chile sends specialized reinforcements to the bedside of 5 minors buried 1,200m deep

It is a real race against the clock that the rescuers have started since Thursday. For example, the collapse of El Teniente, the largest underground copper mine in the world, located in central Chile.

It is an earthquake of magnitude 4.2 which caused the collapse of part of the mine. Similarly, blocking the exit of the mine operated by the public copper company CODELCO (National Copper Corporation). Moreover, 5,000 tonnes of earth blocked the entrance.

Since Thursday, 2,000 tonnes have been released using remote -controlled mechanisms. For example, But there is still a lot to do to try to make contact with they had saved 33 people 5 minors blocked in the. bowels of the mine since Thursday.

This Saturday. when the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, went to the scene, the emergency services were still without a new one of the blocked minors. Officially, the accident left one dead, nine injured and 5 missing.

However. thanks to their GPS beacons, the emergency services know where the minors are but without having any index of their state of health.

This drama recalls that of 2010 where. in the north of the country, 33 minors could have been saved after being blocked for 68 days at the bottom of the mine.

Some of the rescuers hired in El Teniente had also participated in the famous rescue in 2010 in the. San José mine. “We strive to establish contact as quickly as possible. The first 48 hours are crucial,” said the rescue operations manager.

The accident occurred following an earthquake they had saved 33 people whose origin – natural or due to drilling – was not yet determined.

Criticized for not having gone to the scene of the accident since Thursday. the President of the Chilean Republic assured, on the spot this Saturday, that “priority is rescue”. “We must concentrate all our human and technical energies on this priority. Do not let ourselves be distracted. All resources must be devoted to the rescue of our minors”.

“If responsibilities exist. they will have to be established at the right time,” said President Boric again according to the local media El Rancaguino. “A very detailed and very meticulous evaluation of events should be carried out, without speculation”.