The company that has located the Chilean miners will look for fallen children in Spain



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The company that has located the Chilean miners will look for fallen children in Spain

A Swedish company that identified the 33 miners trapped in Chile in 2010 joined Tuesday in search of a small child trapped in a deep and narrow pit in southern Spain by Sunday, announced a local authority.

"Yes, there is a team" of the Swedish company Stockholm Precision Tools AB, which "are the ones that will help us to make the geolocation of the well", located in Totalán, in Andalusia, the delegate of the government of that region said to journalists, Alfonso Rodríguez Gómez.

This company was the one that managed to locate the 33 miners who were stuck underground for 69 days in the San Jose mine in northern Chile, before being rescued in October 2010, in an operation that touched the whole world.

"Right now, the only priority is to locate and have the baby as soon as possible," said Rodriguez Gomez, announcing that they will start digging two tunnels to try to reach the two-year-old child, so it's crucial determine its exact position in the well.

Since the family has reported that the boy, named Julen, has fallen into the 25 cm diameter shaft and more than 100 meters deep, dozens of troops work tirelessly to try to save him, even though the authorities have warned that the work is very complicated by the characteristics of the hole

There was no sign of the child from the accident.

The case has captured the attention of the Spaniards and is widely covered by the media, while the Spanish government has offered all possible means.

"There is a committee of experts to deal with this matter with the utmost seriousness and strength, and without making any kind of savings in the effort, because it could not be otherwise, we are working with all means and with all the institutional cooperation" said the Minister of Interior Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

"Everything that is human and technically possible has been done, in an unprecedented situation (…) we do not know of an accident similar to any other part of the world, because of the narrowness of the well," said Rodríguez Gómez.

The parents of the child "are devastated" have received the help of psychologists, said Monday a spokesperson for the emergency services of Andalusia.

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