Breaking on BBC - nine miners trapped in Peru have been rescued alive

This is great news - they had been receiving oxygen for six days.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/04/201241145033100999.html
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Rescuers are only metres away from reaching nine workers trapped underground in a Peruvian mine, but rescue efforts have been delayed by a small cave-in.

Jorge Merino, the mining and energy minister, said the workers were expected to be freed early on Wednesday.

He cautioned against a hurried rescue operation, saying there was a risk of further cave-ins and collapses inside the Cabeza de Negro copper mine, 325km south of the capital, Lima.

The miners have been trapped for six days in a tunnel 250m underground in a horizontal tunnel after a shaft collapsed after an explosion set by the workers.

President Ollanta Humala visited the mine late on Tuesday. "There have been some setbacks caused by the structure of a rock," Humala said. "We have to wait a few hours more."