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Out of the darkness, images of hope from Chile's trapped miners

By Jerome Taylor

Saturday, 28 August 2010

Out of the pitch-black darkness they walk towards the camera, barechested, smiling and in remarkably good spirits for men who have spent three weeks half a mile underground.

One by one they read out messages to their loved ones, breaking into rousing renditions of their national anthem followed by chants of "Chile! Chile! Chile!"

New video images of the 33 men trapped at the San José mine in the Atacama desert was broadcast around the world yesterday, shining a new light on how the men are faring.

In four days' time the miners will have spent longer trapped underground than anyone in living memory, and they still face up to four months before being rescued. But the messages they sent to their relatives yesterday spent little time dwelling on what lay ahead.

Full article here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 64015.html

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Trapped Chile miners video message