Also today seems to be no D-Day for the Spanish toddler Julen, now already ten days in a pit. Rescue workers are trying with might and the last few meters from the graves, but every time they clash on new problems. In the meantime, is already half a miracle is needed to Julen still alive from the pit. Miners dig today the horizontal connection further, but you may have to get them until tomorrow at Julen. Our reporter on the spot to follow all developments closely. Follow everything in our liveblog.
It is now already ten days ago that the tragic accident occurred. Julen disappeared into the depths when his father fire wanted to burn it to paella to get ready and his mother was distracted by a phone call.
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Yesterday seemed to be the grueling rescue operation in a rapid to come. The rescue workers were finally finished with the drilling of a vertical reddingsschacht of about sixty feet deep. In the course of the day, they wanted a horizontal access of about three or four feet long dug into the shaft where the little boy is stuck.
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But again there was setback. According to the newspaper Diario Sur was the dug vertical shaft something crooked drilled. This left the specially designed tubes that the pit against collapse need to protect it a little further than halfway stitches, at about 40 metres depth. So, it was re-drilled to correct the problems. That work was this morning at 6 am rounded.
