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Trapped Boy
Rescuers have finished drilling a vertical tunnel running parallel to the borehole where the two-year-old boy fell into nine days ago, but now find that the diameter needs to be wider
Rescuers racing to find Julen Roselló have run into new technical difficulties.
When the tunnel is ready, members of a specialised Mining Rescue Brigade will be lowered in teams of two and manually dig a four-meter gallery to connect with the borehole,
Meanwhile
The Civil Guard has taken statements from the parents of the two-year-old as well as the owner of the land and the man who carried out the digging of the original borehole
the Andalusian regional High Court will be investigating the exact circumstances of the incident.… Read all the news

Trapped Boy
Rescuers racing to find a toddler who fell down a deep borehole nine days ago have finished drilling a parallel shaft, and will today start digging a horizontal tunnel to reach the spot where the child is thought to be trapped.
A group of specialist miners will be lowered down in teams of two and manually dig a four-meter gallery to connect with the borehole, a task that is expected to take around 24 hours.
Miners will use pneumatic tools and axes to dig the connecting tunnel, and support the roof with wooden beams as they go.… Read all the news

Shooting
A MAN has died after he was shot inside his Bentley in Marbella.
The 49-year-old was gunned down at 4am yesterday as he was approaching his home in San Pedro de Alcantara.
He’s been identified as Marco Yaqout a Spaniard, of Moroccan origin who owned several bars and nightclubs in Puerto Banus.
He was shot at more than 20 times
The gunman attacked as Marco was entering his garage in what investigators have described as another ‘settling of accounts’.

Drug Bust
The National police announced yesterday it had dismantled a large cocaine processing laboratory and arrested a number of alleged drug-trafficking gang members in Valencia, hours after busting another important drug operation in northwestern Galicia.… Read all the news

Trapped Boy
Efforts to rescue a toddler trapped in a deep borehole entered their eighth day today after digging continued throughout the night.
Rescuers are using a drill to make a vertical shaft running parallel to the hole that the two-year-old reportedly fell into, but work has slowed after machine hit very hard rock yesterday.
When the drill reaches 60 meters, the tunnel will be cladded for safety. After that, a team of specialized miners flown in from northern Spain will go down and dig the last four meters manually to the spot where Julen Roselló is believed to be.… Read all the news

Trapped 2 Year Old
Rescuers said yesterday that the frantic effort to reach a two-year-old boy who fell into a narrow, deep borehole seven days ago has again been slowed by difficult terrain.
Provincial authorities said that a drill used to create a vertical shaft parallel to the waterhole has hit a rocky patch.
There has been no contact made with Julen Rosello, who fell into the 110-meter deep shaft a week ago during a family meal in the countryside northeast of Malaga.… Read all the news

Earth Quake
THE Canary Islands were hit by a 4.2 magnitude earthquake this morning at 7.36 mainland time according to the National Geographic Institute .. they reported a seismic movement almost exactly in mid way between Gran Canaria and Tenerife, at a depth of five kilometres.
The seismic movements were felt in 10 municipalities of both islands and lasted less than a minute.
Another three small quakes were detected in the same area shortly afterwards.

International Arrest
AN Afghan man wanted for shooting a rival gang member with an AK47 rifle has been arrested on the Costa del Sol.… Read all the news

Trapped 2 Year Old
Rescuers frantically racing to reach a two-year-old boy trapped in a borehole are clinging to the hope of finding him alive despite massive setbacks in getting to the bottom of the deep and narrow cavity.
The operation to rescue Julen Rosello from the shaft has gripped Spain since he fell into it on Sunday during a family meal in the countryside north east of Malaga.
Adults can’t fit in the 110-metre deep, 25 cm diameter hole and machinery hit an obstruction of hardened soil and a stone about two-thirds of the way down.… Read all the news

Trapped Boy
Video footage has been released of the inside of the 240ft stretch of tunnel separating rescuers from the two-year-old boy who fell down the borehole in a freak accident on Sunday.
The video – taken by a rotating camera on a robot – shows part of the drop Julen Rosello will have suffered when he went down the hole.
It ends in the blockage of earth, sand and stones around three-quarters of the way down the well – believed to have been caused during the youngster’s fall – which is preventing rescue teams reaching him.… Read all the news

Missing Boy
The search continued yesterday for missing two-year-old Julen Rosello who fell down a well four days ago.
Yesterday authorities confirmed they found hair belonging to the boy in the well.
It was found on Sunday night but the find was only made public following DNA tests.
The Spanish news website El Espanol said a body had been found beneath a blockage around 240 ft down the 350ft borehole near Malaga.
But these reports now appear to be unfounded.
A Swedish firm which helped locate the 33 Chilean miners rescued in 2010 after 69 days underground joined the massive operation to try to locate the boy.… Read all the news

Missing Boy
Rescuers working against the clock to find a missing 2-year-old toddler say they have found hair of the boy in soil extracted from a narrow borehole that is 100 meters deep.
The discovery is giving them renewed confidence that the toddler could be at a deeper section than machinery and surveillance equipment has so far reached.
The government’s representative in the Malaga province says DNA tests have given rescuers “scientific evidence that the boy is there.”
Maria Gamez also said this morning that workers are aiming to dig a side tunnel to reach the shaft.… Read all the news