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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
Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010

Open quoteWe want our boys back, and we want to get them out.Close quote

  • PETER WHITTALL,
  • CEO of Pike River Coal in New Zealand, promising to make every effort to retrieve the bodies of the 29 miners who are now thought to be dead after a second explosion at the mine on the South Island
Photo: SIMON BAKER / AFP / Getty Images | Source: BBC