Hope fading for trapped miners

Rescuers delayed by a broken drill bit for 18 hours worked through their second night in an attempt to reach nine miners trapped underground in a flooded mineshaft.

Hope fading for trapped miners

Rescuers delayed by a broken drill bit for 18 hours worked through their second night in an attempt to reach nine miners trapped underground in a flooded mineshaft.

With the delay, rescuers were increasingly afraid hypothermia would set in before the men could be reached, which would not be before dawn Saturday at the earliest.

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