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Chilean rescuers ………………………… (end) a marathon operation Tuesday and ……………………………………. (free) all 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months. All of the rescued miners …………………………….. (send) for medical treatment and several of them ………………………….. (undergo) surgery in the coming days.
Chilean officials …………………………….. (say) the rescue operation at the San Jose mine in northern Chile …………………………………………. (advance) more quickly than expected.
Rescue crews ……………………………….(pull) each miner to the surface in about 15 minutes.
Rescue crews and officials ……………………….. (cheer) and ………………………(clap) as each miner……………………………..(arrive) at the surface, where family members ………………………………………. (wait) for him. Medical teams ………………………………… (rush) each man to a hospital in nearby Copiapó for a thorough examination.
Chile's President Sebastián Piñera ………………………………….. (be) at the site to greet each rescued miner.
The rescue ………………………………….(end) a two-month-long ordeal for the men, who …………………………………………… (trap) by a cave-in at the gold and copper mine on August 5. The men ………………………(cut off) from the surface for 17 days, until a drilling crew ……………..……………..(locate) them.
Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne …………………………………. (thank) scores of experts and others who ………………………………… (help) carry out the rescue operation. But he ………………………………..(caution) that the job ………………………..(be) over yet.
Health Minister Jaime Mañalich ………………………….. (say) many of the miners ………………………………….(appear) to be in better health than expected. He ……………………………….. (add) that each miner ………………………………………... (undergo) a series of tests, including a lung x-ray and heart monitoring, and that some ………………………………………….(receive) psychiatric treatment, if needed.
A few miners …………………………………………(receive) dental surgery in the coming days to treat abscesses and other conditions.
Mañalich …………………………………………..(say) the most serious case ……..……………………………… (be) a miner with pneumonia, who …………………..………………….(remain) in intensive care for some days to receive oxygen and other treatments.
More than 1,000 journalists …………………………………….. (cover) the rescue operation at the remote San Jose mine in the Atacama desert. During the past two months, relatives of the miners and rescue crews …………………………… (gather) outside the mine and ………………………………………… (form) a community they …………………………………….. (call) Camp Hope.
Millions of people around the world ………………………………….(watch) the rescue operation unfold on television.
In Washington, U.S. President Barack Obama ……………………………. (say) he ……………………………………..(watch) the first miner being freed, adding that it ……………………………………(be) a tribute to the hard work of the rescue workers and the Chilean people. He …………………………………. (thank) people from around the world who…………………………………. (contribute) to the operation, including a U.S.-based drilling team and experts from the U.S. space agency, NASA.
adapted from VOAnews
