Sending rescue capsule into Utah mine is impossible

A mine company attorney today said safety experts believe drilling a bigger hole and sending a rescue capsule into the Utah coal mine where six men have been trapped for two weeks is impossible because the mountain is too unstable.

Sending rescue capsule into Utah mine is impossible

A mine company attorney today said safety experts believe drilling a bigger hole and sending a rescue capsule into the Utah coal mine where six men have been trapped for two weeks is impossible because the mountain is too unstable.

“It’s an unsafe activity,” Murray Energy Corp lawyer Chris Van Bever said, commenting a day after relatives of the six miners pleaded for rescue efforts in Huntington to continue.

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