Live: a microvoladura delays the rescue of Julén – ElSol.com.ar – Diario de Mendoza, Argentina

Agents of the Civil Guadia Explosives Task Force (TEDAX) have returned to descend into the gallery which is expected to reach the place where Julen is to manufacture a new microvoladura. The harshness of the rock facing the members of the Hunosa rescue brigade obliged to take this measure for the fourth time.

The miners managed to reach barely 55 centimeters from where it is thought the two-year-old is, but the quartzite they face made it impossible to continue the activity without the # 39; explosives help.

This fourth charge was smaller than the previous ones. According to the calculations of the technicians, Julen could be on the other side and are certain that the detonation did not affect the body of the child, if any. "The operation must be extremely accurate, three surveyors have been integrated to collaborate in the last part of the tunnel," said Jorge Martín, spokesman of the Málaga Civil Guard, during a brief appearance in front of the judges. means of communication before the operation is carried out.

Martín also added that four civil guards of the mountain team, specialists in speleology and microvillage, have strengthened the operation in case it would be necessary to perform a relay.

Sources in the operation told El Mundo that the mining rescue brigade was working at a good pace because slate was an "easy to penetrate" material, but not quartzite. Hunosa specialists are beginning to accuse, according to the same sources, "a certain level of fatigue".

This failure delayed the operation for at least an hour and a half. The microvoladura is a complex and delicate process, intended to guarantee the safety of the specialists of explosives of the Civil Guard and the miners who will continue to bite the stone, because once the detonation produced, the polluting gases generated after the same.

Parent support

About 30 people are clasping and supporting Julen's parents in the house that a neighbor of Totalán has given them to stay until the rescue, reports Efe. In addition, two agents of the Civil Guard remain in the vicinity of the property with an official car at the door.

He also meets with the parents a team of psychologists to try to control and regulate their emotions in the face of the uncertainty related to the rescue of the child and the exceptional circumstances.