{"id":35734,"date":"2013-03-20T11:40:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=35734"},"modified":"2024-02-17T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:02:44","slug":"poland-minersrescuers-reached-the-19-trapped-polish-miners-europe-news-35734","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/poland-minersrescuers-reached-the-19-trapped-polish-miners-europe-news-35734\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland Miners:Rescuers reached the 19 trapped Polish miners \/ Europe News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rudna-mine-poland-silesia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35740 alignleft\" alt=\"rudna-mine-poland-silesia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rudna-mine-poland-silesia.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rudna-mine-poland-silesia.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/rudna-mine-poland-silesia-280x159.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Rescuers have reached 19 miners trapped underground in a Polish copper mine after an earthquake caused a cave-in.<\/h1>\n<p>A spokesman for state-controlled mine operator KGHM said they were alive and undergoing medical checks as each one of them was being brought to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Four people had earlier managed to walk out on their own.<\/p>\n<p>The miners were trapped 600m below ground at the Rudna mine, about 249 miles (400km) southwest of the Polish capital Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>An operation was launched to get to them via another mine, linked to the one the crew were trapped in which was deemed unstable, and therefore too dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our mines are linked together. Although there is also a rubble there &#8230; it is however more stable. It is safer, machines can operate there and it gives hope,&#8221;\u00a0 KGHM spokesman Dariusz Wyborski said.<\/p>\n<p>The company lost contact with the miners for several hours because the tremor cut communication lines.<\/p>\n<p>The mine has been in operation since 1974, and KGHM is Europe&#8217;s second-biggest copper producer.<\/p>\n<p>Poland has a large numbers of mines, mostly in the heavily industrialised Silesia region.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, a gas explosion at a coal mine in the region killed 23 miners.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescuers have reached 19 miners trapped underground in a Polish copper mine after an earthquake caused a cave-in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,80,63,1,118,14],"tags":[48118,48115,48124,48117,48120,48121,6757,48116,48111,48112,48119,48114,48123,48122,48126,48125,48113],"class_list":["post-35734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-world","tag-19-miners-trapped-underground-poland","tag-19-trapped-miners","tag-cooper-mine-rudna","tag-earthquake-caused-cave-in","tag-kghm","tag-kghm-poland","tag-poland","tag-poland-earthquake","tag-poland-miners","tag-poland-trapped-miners","tag-rescuers-have-reached-miners","tag-rescuers-reached-19-trapped-miners","tag-rudna-mine","tag-rudna-mine-trapped-miners","tag-silesia","tag-silesia-region","tag-trapped-polish-miners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79070,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35734\/revisions\/79070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}