Bodies of all five trapped miners found after shaft collapse in Chile

Relatives of a missing miner embrace in front of the offices of Codelco (Esteban Felix/AP)

The bodies of all five miners trapped for three days in a collapsed shaft in the world’s biggest underground copper mine have been found and identified, an official said.

Aquiles Cubillos, the lead prosecutor in Chile’s O’Higgins region, said the body of Moises Pavez, the last miner to remain missing, was found at 3.30pm local time by rescue teams. They had drilled through dozens of yards of rock to reach the stranded workers.