Spain: they have already dug more than half of the gallery to reach the little Julen

DPA / Europa Press Agency

Mining rescue brigade forces made more than half of the excavated horizontal tunnel to find Julen, the two-year-old boy who fell into a well over 100 meters deep in Totalán (Málaga). 12 days

Thus, as reported the sub-delegation of the Government in Malaga, after the third microvoladura, the excavations of the horizontal gallery grew by two and a half meters. In total, it is necessary to dig about four meters.

The miners continue the work so far without the need to reuse explosives, which have been used three times, including the last Friday morning, as explained by the Civil Guard spokesman, Jorge Martín.

The miners began last Thursday afternoon to dig a horizontal gallery of about four meters to connect the previously drilled vertical tunnel to the well in which lies the little Julen.

During the morning, the excavation work of this horizontal gallery reached one and a half meters and the complex conditions of the field forced the use of microvoladuras. Martín explained that it is the mountain that marks the pace of the work of the operation, given its extreme hardness.

He also said that the atmosphere within the officer, consisting of 26 members of the brigade, the Civil Guard and the provincial fire brigade, is "as high" as this Thursday, when they started the descent.