Hoping and praying they are alive and will be rescued soon… no word from the trapped miners yet
Two miners reached the surface after Friday’s gas explosion, but there has been no word from the others.
Police said the miners, aged 17 to 62, are believed to be about two kilometres down the main tunnel.
There has been no communication with the missing men since an explosion rocked the Pike River colliery – the country’s largest coal producer – near Greymouth on New Zealand’s west coast on Friday.
Rescue leaders pledged that they would do everything they could to reach the trapped miners.
