US crews drill hole to within few hundred feet of miners

Crews drilling toward six trapped coal miners in Utah hoped to reach the area where they were believed to be by tonight and finally discover whether the men were alive, one of the mine’s co-owners said.

Authorities thought the men were 1,500 feet underground, but rescuers realised partway through the day that because of rough, uneven terrain, they would need to drill to nearly 1,900 feet.