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Chile's President Sebastian Pinera holds up a plastic bag containing a message, from miners trapped in a collapsed mine, that reads in Spanish
Monday, Aug. 23, 2010

Open quoteThey got close to the camera and we could see their eyes, their joy.Close quote

  • SEBASTIAN PINERA,
  • President of Chile, after 33 miners who had been trapped in a mine for 17 days were discovered alive; a video camera lowered down the probe shaft on Sunday showed some of the miners waving happily
Photo: Hector Retamal / AP | Source: BBC