Nearly 48 hours after a rescue operation began in South Wales for four trapped miners, authorities say all four men have been found dead. The men, who have been identified by the media as Phillip Hill, 45, Charles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, and Garry Jenkins, 39, became trapped in the Gleision Colliery near Swansea around 9 a.m. Thursday when a retaining wall failed and water flooded the mine.
Prime Minister David Cameron called the accident “desperately sad.” “One can only imagine the anguish the families are going through and will go through and the sorrow of losing loved ones,” Cameron said Friday. “It is clear the emergency services have done everything they can and worked incredibly hard and have not lacked for anything.”
Three other miners were underground at the time of the accident, but they escaped unharmed. They have been identified as Mark Lloyd, 45, Malcolm Fifield and Andrew Powell, 23.
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