Peruvian miners rescued from collapsed mine

Nine Peruvian miners have been rescued after six days trapped in an abandoned copper mine.

The nine, ranging in age from 23 to 58, walk ed out without assistance about an hour after dawn from a reinforced tunnel that rescuers had built as they removed more than eight metres of dirt and rock. The miners wore sunglasses and were covered with blankets. President Ollanta Humala greeted them. Humala had spent the night at the mine 240 kilometres southeast of Lima. The miners were trapped by a cave-in triggered by an explosion they themselves had set. They had communicated with rescuers through a hose, in place before the collapse, by which they also received food and medicine during their ordeal in a horizontal shaft dug into a mountainside. "It's pretty ugly inside," one of...