Julen operative: the rescuers are already at 40 centimeters from the truth – 25/01/2019

The rescuers are getting closer to Julen, the boy who fell twelve days ago in a well in Malaga, Spain. Thursday night, they dug two of the four meters of the horizontal gallery with which they were trying to reach him, but when they were 65 centimeters from the target, a hard rock prevented progress and they had to use explosives to move forward. Now the miners have returned to the well and are already within 40 centimeters of the truth.

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"After 15 hours of work, the miners have risen nearly two meters out of the necessary 3.8 to reach Julen," said Francisco Delgado Bonilla, delegate of the Malaga firefighters consortium, who is involved in the operation of rescue.

According to the latest information, while it was 65 centimeters from the child, a new vein of quartzite, made of hard rock, made it necessary again the intervention of the group TEDAX of the Civil Guard for a fourth micro-blasting . Now the miners are getting into the well and moving a little further in their final search for Julen.

In the area where the baby's rescue device is developed, there is a continuous comings and goings of helicopters, one of which returned after his flight to Seville to take explosive materials with him. It is the intention of rescue teams that they will not remain at any time without providing equipment for controlled microvolamings that help crumble the rock.

"Once again, the hardness of the ground has delayed excavations and forced mining experts to perform two micro-blasting operations," said the expert. South newspaper. Over the hours, they had to make two other microsandings and there are already four in total.

Delgado Bonilla stressed the difficulty of the operation in charge of the Mine Rescue Brigade, which works at 72 meters deep and with the badumption that the baby "is close", which imposes measures of extreme security.

The operation entered the eve in the final phase with the descent of the rescuers after eleven days of intense engineering work to drill a vertical tunnel up to the well into which he fell the January 13th.

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The miners went down in a capsule. The work is done manually, with hydraulic hammers. When moving, they support the roof and sides with wood, a technique typical of traditional coal mining.

After the last stage of the rescue, with the miners digging without rest – by rotating teams of two – on Thursday night, the Totalán Square was filled with neighbors who came to accompany Julen's parents during a vigil called to pray together to them on hold from a miracle.

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Julen would be under a "grounding" located 71 meters deep. The only hope that he is still alive is creating an "air pocket" allowing him to breathe.

While anxious waiting was continuing, Julen's parents had to face up, even threatening lawsuits against people who spread rumors on social networks, which were denied by the Civil Guard, about his alleged responsibility in the fall of the child, which will make them guilty of manslaughter.