SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico — More than three days of backbreaking labor brought rescuers close to the site where two of 65 trapped coal miners are believed to be located, a federal official said Wednesday. Whether the two men are dead or alive could provide a clue to the fate of workers trapped deeper inside the Pasta de Conchos mine, federal Labor Secretary Francisco Salazar said.
"These two people will give us an indication of what it is that could have happened,” Salazar told the Televisa television network Wednesday morning.
Salazar said the two conveyor belt operators are believed to be less than 54 yards past a wall of debris that rescuers have been trying to break through since early Tuesday. The miners were trapped by an underground gas explosion early Sunday.
Costa Rica’s Oscar Arias wins presidential elections, according to official results
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias won Costa Rica’s Feb. 5 presidential election by 18,167 votes, one of the country’s closest races ever, according to official results released Wednesday.
An Associated Press tabulation of the complete official vote count showed Arias received 664,545 votes compared to 646,378 votes for Otton Solis.
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Costa Rican elections officials weren’t expected to formally declare a winner following the count of more than two weeks, until any major election challenges are resolved.
Briefly ... Roof collapse: The roof of a Moscow market collapsed early Thursday, killing at least 12 people and trapping an unknown number of people under the wreckage, emergency officials said.
It was unclear how many people were in the Bauman market in eastern Moscow when the roof collapsed at 5:20 a.m.
The official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said the toll could have been worse had the market been open for business.
Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov told The Associated Press that at least 12 people were killed and 17 injured.
Moscow city prosecutor Anatoly Zuyev said up to 40 people could still be trapped in the wreckage, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
Investigators believe heavy snow on the roof caused it to collapse, officials said. A wet snow had fallen in Moscow for much of the day Wednesday and overnight.<
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