Chile miners finally rescued! by Barbora Misakova

THAT is incredible and attention-worthy! After 69 days (!!!) miners from Chilean earth were freed! Wednesday was the lucky day not only for miners themselves but also and mostly for their families. The whole rescue action started at midnight and by early afternoon, more than half the men had been rescued. The whole operation was strictly monitored by video on the way up for any sign of panic. Miners had oxygen masks, dark glasses to protect their eyes from unfamiliar daylight. Mario Sepulveda, the second miner who tasted freedom said: “I think I had extraordinary luck. I was with God and with the devil. And I reached out for God.” When the miners were buried by ! 700,000 tons of rock on August 5, no one dared to believe they would survive! For the first 17 days, no one even knew whether they were alive. But after more than three months they are out and alive, and some of them are even making fun of it – Sepulveda for instance shortly after being pulled out of buried mine, handed out souvenir rocks from the mine to laughing rescuers. After first eight miners were rescued, health minister Jaime Manalich told a news conference that all of them were in good health, even the diabetic among them. “This rescue operation has been so marvelous, so clean, so emotional that there was no reason not to allow the eyes of the world to see it.” said President Sebastian Pinera. All 33 miners, among whom the youngest is 19-year-old and the oldest 63-year-old, are OK!

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