The rescue operation of the Spanish toddler Julen is probably going to be even longer. According to the authorities, there are this morning ‘technical problems’ discovered in strengthening the reddingschacht which miners will descend to a last horizontal tunnel to the pit to dig where Julen stuck. The toddler is already more than a week stuck in a deep well in the area of Malaga, in the south of Spain.
The heavy rescue operation seemed to be today in a accelerate. The rescue workers were finally finished with the drilling of a vertical reddingsschacht of about sixty meters deep, after lots of delaying setbacks by rock-hard layers of stone and was about to collapse.
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In the course of today, they wanted a horizontal access of about 4 metres long and dug into the shaft where the boy is stuck, the most dangerous and delicate part of the quest. But once again there is misfortune. By certain deviations in the bottom of the vertical tunnel fit toning tubes not and should be re-drilled with a slightly larger diameter, reports El Pais on the basis of info from the search and rescue team.
