Spain: miners are within one meter of Julen's rescue

After 24 hours of excavation without interruption, minors are less than one meter find Julen Roselló, the two-year-old boy imprisoned for twelve days in a well in the Spanish city of Totalán, Malaga. The authorities explained that they had already searched almost the entire horizontal tunnel they are trying to access, which is more than 70 meters deep.

The rescue of Julen canned waiting for all Spain. The only hope that Julen is still alive is that he finds himself in a difficult situation to have formed an "air pocket" and be able to breathe, local media reports said.

The last centimeters excavations are very difficult why the experts because they found quartzite, one of the hardest minerals. And this forced the entire rescue team to do the "minivoladura" for the fourth consecutive time, delayed by the operation. Whenever they carry out this process, the miners come to the surface and are the Civil Guard explosive specialists who intervene and blow up the charge, which takes more than an hour.

The rescue operation is in charge of the Mining rescue brigadewho works 72 meters deep twelve days ago. The miners intervened yesterday in the final phase, after eleven days of intense and difficult engineering work to drill a vertical tunnel up to the well in which Julen is located.

They found traces of Julen, the boy fell in a well in Spain

The last. By means of a capsule, they descended into the deepest part of the tunnel and from there, they opened their way manually with hydraulic hammers and maintaining the roof and the wooden sides, typical technique of the 39, traditional extraction of coal.

A field hospital was set up in case urgent medical care was needed, and the Civil Guard moved three helicopters into the area in case it was necessary to transfer Julen to a medical center. Julen's parents had to react to rumors installed via social networks about their alleged responsibility for the fall of their son to the well, because if that is true, it would make them guilty of manslaughter. However, rumors have been denied by the Civil Guard and it has threatened to take legal action against those who continue to broadcast them.