Chile Speaks to Trapped Miners as Codelco Sends Rescue Drill
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Chile set up communication lines and sent medical supplies to 33 miners trapped 700 meters (2,300 feet) underground for more than two weeks, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said.
Rescue teams sent rehydration solutions, medicine and an intercom through the same drill hole used to discover the workers yesterday, Golborne told reporters from the mine site in northern Chile today. The workers are in good health apart from hunger and a lack of oxygen, Andre Sougarret, leader of the rescue effort, told Chile’s TVN television channel.