Dramatic endgame nears for trapped Chile miners
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile – They’ll come up one by one in green overalls bearing their names on their chests — first the fittest, then the weakest, twisting in a steel cage that proved itself with four flawless test runs deep into the earth. The dramatic endgame hastened Monday for the 33 Chilean miners who have braved two months underground, with rescuers reinforcing the escape shaft and the 13-foot-tall rescue chamber sliding, as planned, nearly all the way to the trapped men. “It didn’t even raise any dust,” Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said. If all goes well, everything will be in place late Tuesday to begin pulling the men out, officials said. The lead psychologist for the…
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