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The entrance to the Pike River Coal mine where 29 workers are trapped inside after an explosion is pictured some 50 kms outside the New Zealand town of Greymouth on November 21, 2010
Monday, Nov. 22, 2010

Open quoteWe're going to get through this and do everything we possibly can to get the men out alive.Close quote

  • JOHN KEY,
  • Prime Minister of New Zealand, on the country's 29 missing coal miners, as rescuers prepared on Monday to test the air quality in the mine tunnel; the presence of explosive gases has prevented a rescue
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