Totalan, Spain, (AFP) – on a mission without precedent and sown risk, a group of miners from elite was this Friday very close to reach the well where 12 days ago fell a two-year-old boy in the South of E spaña. In a difficult undertaking, aid workers first dug a vertical tunnel parallel to the deep well of 25 centimeters in diameter where on 13 January fell Julen Roselló child.
The miner Rescue Brigade moved from Asturias has begun its work to enter the tunnel to rescue Julen. Photo: EFE there working tirelessly since Thursday afternoon miners, down shifts, two by two, in a metal cage, to excavate four metres in horizontal drilling and reach the well. The effort has allowed them to move slowly, with artificial light and oxygen, and already the Friday evening had advanced two and a half meters, of the four that is supposed to separate well tunnel.
“Excavation of the horizontal Gallery has moved to the two and a half meters,” told the press the subdelegation of the Government in the Andalucian province of Malaga.
A team of miners began digging a tunnel in a last-minute attempt to reach out to a two-year-old boy who fell into a well in Andalusia in the South of Spain 12 days ago. Photo: AFP according to the same source, “the complex terrain conditions” forced to perform two microexplosions overnight on Thursday. A third occurred around noon, and with many precautions for moving forward, said the guard Civil.Jorge Martin, spokesman of the armed, told the press that “no deadlines” to reach the child, and showed wisdom stating that “mountain marks the” pace of work”.
So the size of the well where it fell. Photo: EFE “similar to we have found extremely hard material in the vertical tunnel, is is finding the same material in horizontal tunnel where we are working to reach Julen”, explained. However, said that the miners among “the mood is still as high as yesterday,” while the work is delicate because during their work they must remove “polluted air and gases that are below” after the explosions. The work involves, in addition to elite eight miners, displaced from Asturias (North), a team of eight firefighters and one civil guard bomb. From the beginning, the search is living with emotion in the village of total. On Thursday night there was a vigil attended by hundreds of residents of this mountainous area, to pray for the child.
The women sing during a vigil in support of Julen Roselló, for two years, and their parents, in total, South of Spain. Photo: AFP the ceremony was led by Juan Jose Cortes, a man known in Spain for being the father of Mari Luz, a five-year-old girl killed in 2008 in Huelva, in Andalusia.
“We want soon to Julen with us!”, cried Juan José Cortés next to the parents of the child, which has embraced excited and with closed eyes.
Cortés, impromptu spokesman for the parents, said that “they are strong, they are facing this last section with great force and above all I have been told: ‘we have not lost hope at any time'”.
The child fell to the well while the parents were having lunch in a nearby area. Since that day have not had evidence that he is alive, but authorities say that they do not lose hope. To clarify the circumstances of the fall, in a well that was devoid of signage, the Civil Guard questioned parents, the owner of the land and the pocero which did the survey. A Malaga Court opened proceedings on the case.
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