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Friday, July 4, 2014

Rescuers free 3 trapped Honduran miners, 8 still missing

Miners carry stretchers as other take cover from rain in a makeshift tent at the site of a landslide at a gold mine in San Juan Arriba By Jorge Cabrera SAN JUAN ARRIBA Honduras (Reuters) - Rescuers on Friday freed three miners who had been trapped by a landslide at an illegal gold mine in southern Honduras, but eight more remained unaccounted for as the search moved into its second day. The workers were trapped when the entrance to the mine in San Juan Arriba collapsed on Wednesday. Officials said the mine, 70 miles (110 km) south of the Central American nation's capital Tegucigalpa, had been ordered to close a few months ago because it was unsafe. "We've rescued three of the miners, thank God, and we're going to keep looking for the other eight," Moises Alvarado, a senior emergency services official, told reporters.




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