Published: May 20, 2019
New Zealand watches as operation to look for clues to 2010 disaster begins
The operation to re-enter New Zealand’s Pike river mine and recover the bodies of 29 miners killed in an explosion there nine years ago has begun, marking a “symbolic moment” more than two weeks after it was called off amid safety concerns.
The families of those killed were invited to a private event on Tuesday morning at the site on the South Island’s west coast to watch three experienced miners breach an 88cm concrete seal at the mine’s opening, enter and begin the $36m operation to find the bodies and work out what caused the explosion.
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