Sound detectors search for trapped miners

Rescuers were preparing to lower sound-detection equipment into a northern Chilean gold and copper mine in an effort to locate 33 workers trapped there.

Sound detectors search for trapped miners

Rescuers were preparing to lower sound-detection equipment into a northern Chilean gold and copper mine in an effort to locate 33 workers trapped there.

The listening devices would be lowered through holes drilled down into the mine in hopes of making contact with the workers, who were trapped on Thursday when a tunnel collapsed, said Rodrigo Jofre, who represents families of the 33 trapped miners.

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