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Underground search for Utah the 6 miners suspended after cave-in kills 3 rescuers
Midday update
Paul Foy
Associated Press
HUNTINGTON, Utah - The desperate underground drive to reach six trapped miners was suspended indefinitely Friday after a cave-in killed three rescuers inside a mountainside mine, a federal official said.
"Is there any possible way we can continue this underground operation and provide safety for the rescue workers? At this point we don't have an answer," said Richard Stickler, head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.
The collapse Thursday evening killed three rescue workers and injured at least six others who were trying to tunnel through rubble to reach six miners trapped Aug. 6 inside the mountain. Stickler said mine-safety experts were being summoned to central Utah to discuss the crisis.
Outside the mountain, crews were drilling a fourth hole for any sign of the six men, whose survival status still was unknown on the 12th day of confinement, 1,500 feet below ground.
"Without question, we have suffered a setback and we have incurred an incredible loss, but this team remains focused on the task at hand" - the rescue of the miners, said Rob Moore, vice president of Murray Energy Corp., co-owner of the mine.
Said Gov. Jon Huntsman: "Yesterday we went from a tragedy to a catastrophe."
He said the state would help federal official in the investigation into the collapse.
"We have questions, too, and we want answers to those questions. We want to make sure that the lives that were lost last night were not in vain," Huntsman said.
The collapse Thursday was a devastating turn for the families of the six men trapped in the initial collapse at the Crandall Canyon mine and for the relatives of those trying to rescue them. All rescue workers were evacuated from the mine Thursday evening and work underground was stopped.
The cave-in at 6:39 p.m. was believed to be caused by a "mountain bump," in which shifting ground forces chunks of rock from the walls. The force from the bump registered a 1.6 at the University of Utah seismograph stations in Salt Lake City.
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