Drill breaks through to New Zealand miners but rescuers 'cannot go in'

[Kennah]

Source: Guardian

A drill broke through to the main tunnel where 29 miners are trapped in New Zealand today but conditions remained too dangerous for rescuers to go in.

A robot that broke down earlier in the day was reactivated and a helmet belonging to one of the two miners who escaped in the hours after Friday's explosion was found with its light still on.
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He said they had to be prepared for the possibility that their job could change from a rescue mission to a recovery operation.
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Whittall said he had held a "sobering" meeting with the families of those trapped.
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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/23/new-zealand-mine-drill-breaks-through