Mine rescuers find body in Wales

Rescuers attempting to free four miners trapped in a flooded pit have located a body.

Emergency services said they had not given up hope of finding the other three men alive in the Gleision Colliery near Cilybebyll in the Swansea Valley.

But they have been unable to recover and identify the body they have discovered.

Superintendent Phil Davies told reporters at the scene: “A miner has been found. He is deceased. We are not in a current position to recover him from the mine and therefore we don’t know the identity of that person.

“This is a dynamic, ongoing search and rescue operation and all emergency services are working hard to get all the miners out of there as soon as possible.”

Chris Margetts, from South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said the dead miner was found on the “exit side of the body of water” and that it was “quite possible the team has been split”.