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The miners have been in the mine since Thursday night. It is unknown if they are alive and doing ok, or if they have suffered injuries, or have died.

On Sunday, rescue members tried to use a machine to get to the 33 miners still trapped within the mine.

Saturday, rescue attempts were knock back when yet another cave in blocked the way. It stopped them from possibly making their way into were the miners are trapped.

According to the local media, there is a shelter inside the mine that the workers could have taken refuge in.

The president of Chili, Sebastian Pinera, went to Copiapo where the mine is located on Saturday. He met with officials there.

“We are going to do everything humanly possible to rescue alive the 33 people who are trapped. In this there will be no hesitation and a total commitment,” he said, according to a statement posted on his office’s website.

San Esteban, the mine, is located in the Atacama area that is in the north part of Chili.

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Beijing – Seventeen workers were killed and six miners were trapped underground early Monday after an outburst of coal and gas at a coal mine in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, local authorities said.

The miners were working in a shaft of Malishu Coal Mine in Shuangbai County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture when the accident happened at about 1:50 a.m., said the county government. Rescuers rushed to the mine at 4:00 a.m. They were still searching for the miners. Local work safety authorities were investigating the cause of the outburst.

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Twenty three  citizens  confirmed dead in Monday’s massive landslide that buried  fraction  of a  town  in north China’s Shanxi Province,  regional   governments  said Tuesday. The landslide swept  across  six homes on Monday at the Zhangjiaju Village, in Zhangzishan Township of Zhongyang County.

A spokesman with the county federal said the final body was recovered early Tuesday and 12 of the dead were male and 11 female.  The victims were migrant employees at a nearby coal mine and their families. They were from five households from the Qiaojia County, in the southwestern Yunnan Province, the spokesman said. More than 300 citizens had helped in the rescue operation.

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