Chile celebrates as first miner is rescued

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The first of the 33 men who have spent 69 days trapped inside a Chilean mine has succesfully made it to the surface. Florencio Avalos, a 31-year-old truck driver, stepped out of the Phoenix rescue capsule and into a cheering Camp Hope a few minutes after midnight. He hugged his wife, Monica and two children, together with a small reception party who greeted him at the surface, before being taken into a medical facility on a stretcher. The rest of the miners, who were trapped inside the remote San Jose mine, roughly an hour’s drive from the…

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