Geo436 COPIAPO: Rescuers will start evacuating 33 trapped miners late on Tuesday and have successfully tested a capsule to hoist them to the surface to end their two-month ordeal, officials said on Monday.
The specially designed bullet-shaped cage was lowered almost the entire length of the escape shaft without a hitch, Mining Minister Laurence Golborne told reporters.
Once the evacuations start, at midnight on Tuesday (0300 GMT, Wednesday), it will take 48 hours to hoist the men up from inside the caved-in mine half a mile underground, he said.
Four rescuers will be lowered down to help the miners prepare to return to the surface from the darkness of the tunnel they have been trapped in since the Aug. 5 collapse at the gold and copper mine in the Atacama desert.
Rescue workers finished reinforcing the escape shaft on Monday morning. Engineers decided to
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