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Spain: Rescuers lowered down shaft to reach trapped toddler

Jan 24, 2019 | 9:15 AM

MADRID — Spanish mine rescue experts are being lowered down a deep shaft from where they hope to dig a tunnel to reach a 2-year-old boy trapped underground for 11 days.

Authorities have struggled to recover Julen Rosello after he fell down a narrow, 110-meter (360-foot) deep borehole in the southern Spanish countryside on Jan. 13.

The only sign of the toddler found inside the hole so far is hair that matched his DNA.

Officials said a purpose-built cage was used Thursday to take the miners down a shaft that has been drilled parallel to the borehole.