+Mexico Miners 3
AP-APTN-2330: +Mexico Miners 3
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
STORY:+Mexico Miners 3- WRAP Rescue operation as hopes fade for missing miners; ADDS funeral
LENGTH: 02:30
FIRST RUN: 2330
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: Spanish/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 687238
DATELINE: San Juan de Sabinas - 4 May 2011
LENGTH: 02:30
AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST:
(FIRST RUN 2030 LATAM PRIME NEWS - 4 MAY 2011)
1. Wide of mine grounds
2. Wide of tent with rescue workers
3. Mid of miners waiting
4. Wide of tent and rescue workers
5. Wide of miners on mine grounds
6. Various of miners walking away
7. Wide of mine grounds
8. Wide of mine shaft entrance
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(FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 4 MAY 2011)
9. Wide of miners' relatives
10. Mid of relatives trying to tear down fences and shouting (Spanish) "We want information."
11. Mid of young woman crying
12. Mid of upset woman protesting UPSOUND: "What are you doing? You don't even come to say you are making progress or what your are going to do. What are you doing in there?"
13. Wide of crowd of relatives
14. Pan left of Javier Lozano, Mexican Labour Secretary, approaching relatives
15. Mid of crowd of relatives
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Lozano, Mexican Labour Secretary:
"If we haven't returned (to speak) to you is because we really don't have any news, but we don't have any bad news either."
17. Wide of wake for dead miner at funeral home
18. Mid of casket with flowers and picture of dead miner
19. Close of picture of dead miner
20. Mid of people at wake
21. Close of woman
22. Wide of wake
23. Wide of people outside funeral home
STORYLINE
Stunned and saddened relatives held a vigil Wednesday outside a mine in northern Mexico where nine workers were trapped and possibly dead following an explosion that killed at least five of their colleagues.
Rescuers used picks, shovels and their hands to tunnel through dirt, wood, metal and rock in a frantic effort to reach the miners trapped 197 feet (60 meters) underground in the northwestern state of Coahuila.
A group of frustrated relatives charged against a metal fence keeping them away from the mine shaft and demanded information on the rescue effort.
Mexican Labour Secretary Javier Lozano calmed the group and promised he would give them an update on the rescue every hour.
Meanwhile, in the town of San Juan de Sabinas grieving relatives have started holding wakes for some of the deceased miners.
Funerals are planned for later on Wednesday evening.
The 14 miners had gone down the 197-feet (60-metre) deep shaft when the explosion took place early Tuesday.
The blast was so strong it wounded a 15-year-old boy who had been working on a conveyor belt outside the mine pit separating coal from tailings.
The boy was taken to a hospital in serious condition, said a spokesman for mining company BIMSA.
Federal prosecutors later said both the boy's arms had been amputated and that he remained in serious condition.
The boy's employment at the mine was an apparent violation of labour laws, Labour Secretary Javier Lozano said.
A team of four rescuers who entered the mine quickly found the bodies of three miners in front of the rubble shaken loose by the blast.
The mine employees later found two more bodies, and one rescuer who had been down the partially collapsed shaft said there was little chance anyone survived.
The mine had opened just over a month ago, and employed about 25 miners
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