Rescuers in Chile have found the body of the last of five workers who had been trapped in the world’s largest underground copper mine after an earthquake on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The announcement was made by regional prosecutor Aquiles Cubillos, who said the focus now was on a criminal investigation into the incident at El Teniente mine, run by the state-owned Codelco company.<\/p>\n
The four other bodies had been discovered on Saturday and earlier on Sunday during a desperate search in collapsed mine tunnels, about 70km (43 miles) south-east of the capital Santiago. <\/p>\n
The overall death toll is now confirmed at six, as another person was killed at the time of the incident on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The collapse of some of the tunnels was caused by a 4.2 magnitude tremor on Thursday. Miners had been working deep below the surface.<\/p>\n
Codelco has so far named two of the victims – Paulo Mar\u00edn and Gonzalo N\u00fa\u00f1ez Caroca – but said the others were yet to be identified “by the relevant authorities”.<\/p>\n
“We share the anguish this situation causes their families and the entire community,” the copper mining company said.<\/p>\n
Rescue teams had been using heavy machinery in an effort to clear the blocked passageways to try to reach the miners. <\/p>\n
Codelco said rescue teams had cleared 24m (78.7ft) of blocked passages at the mine.<\/p>\n
El Teniente is located high in the Andes mountains in central Chile.<\/p>\n
Authorities have said they are investigating whether the cause of the earthquake was mining activity or natural tectonic shifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers in Chile have found the body of the last of five workers who had been trapped in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-43303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}