25 Jan, 2019 @ 17:39
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Malaga miners are CENTIMETRES away from little Julen after blasting through hard rock

Credit: Ñito Salas / Diario Sur

MINERS are now just centimetres away from little Julen, the two-year-old boy who fell down a well in Malaga on January 13. 

They have now excavated 3.15 of the roughly 3.81 metres which stands between them and the boy.

It comes after a hard rock, or quartzite, delayed the team by blocking their path yesterday.

Experts had to be drafted in to carry out a series of controlled explosions to break up the rock and clear a path.

A crack team of eight Asturian miners have been going down a vertical shaft running parallel to the narrow borehole in teams of two since Thursday evening.

More to follow…

CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated the team of miners had ‘excavated 3.15 of the roughly 3.18 metres which stands between them and the boy’, it has been corrected to 3.81 metres

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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