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Fire During Prison Riot Kills at Least 83 in Chile

(Dec. 8) -- At least 83 people are dead after a fire broke out in an overcrowded prison in Chile today during a riot between inmates. The blaze has seriously injured 18 people and forced the evacuation of hundreds of inmates at the San Miguel prison, south of Santiago. According to multiple news reports, all of the dead...

Rescuers Close In on Trapped Chilean Miners

(Oct. 7) -- Drillers are only 90 yards from the 33 trapped Chilean miners, who have been stranded underground since a shaft collapsed 63 days ago. "We expect to break through this Saturday," Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said in a televised news conference today. He said the team was digging at a rate of about...

Trapped Chilean Miners Appear Upbeat in Video

(Aug. 27) -- Members of a 33-man Chilean mine team trapped in a half-mile-deep cavern are seen joking, singing the national anthem and thanking their rescuers in a new video. "We know what you've all been doing for us," one man said, addressing the rescuers, according to CNN. "You haven't left us alone. We want to send...

Chilean Miners Told Rescue May Not Be for Months

(Aug. 26) -- The 33 miners trapped by a cave-in at a mine in northern Chile have been told they may be stuck underground for four more months. "We were able to tell them ... they would not be rescued before the Fiestas Patrias [Chile's September 18 Independence Day celebrations], and that we hoped to get them out before...

Rescuers Send Supplies to Trapped Chilean Miners

(Aug. 24) -- Rescue workers trying to free 33 miners trapped at a mine in northern Chile say they have sent emergency supplies to the men, two-and-a-half weeks after the workers were first cut off by a cave-in. Blue plastic capsules known as "palomas" -- Spanish for dove -- were sent down a 2,200-foot-deep borehole to the...