Two miners found dead after tunnel collapse

Search teams in Ecuador found the bodies of two miners and were still looking for two other men missing since a tunnel collapsed 490 feet underground the previous day.

Two miners found dead after tunnel collapse

Search teams in Ecuador found the bodies of two miners and were still looking for two other men missing since a tunnel collapsed 490 feet underground the previous day.

Deputy mining minister Jorge Espinosa identified the dead men as Walter Vera and Paul Aguirre. He said searchers still held hopes they could rescue the two missing miners, Pedro Mendoza and Angel Vera.

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