President: Hopes dwindling for missing Polish miners
High levels of gas forced rescuers to suspend their search for 15 miners missing more than a half a mile underground today, and the Polish president said conditions were “getting worse” for anyone trapped and still alive.
Anxious family members prayed at the shrine of St. Barbara, the patroness of miners, at the Halemba mine near Ruda Slaska, in southern Poland, where a methane explosion yesterday killed eight coal miners and left the others missing.
