Rescue workers find body amid race to save people trapped in Chile copper mine

The El Teniente copper mine is one of Chile’s largest (Esteban Felix/AP)

Rescue teams have found a body inside a section of a copper mine in Chile that collapsed two days earlier during a moderate earthquake, the mine’s director said on Saturday.

Rescuers have been trying to reach five miners who were trapped on Thursday evening in the El Teniente mine in central Chile as rocks collapsed around them during a 4.2 magnitude quake.