Chile's trapped miners to be rescued soon
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Meanwhile, different Chilean officials have given different dates for the rescue of the miners, while others have requested not to speculate about the dates, causing confusion among the miners' relatives and the rest of the people including journalists, awaiting for the miners rescue.
Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich said on Friday that the first of the 33 trapped miners could be rescued on Tuesday, as the Plan B could reach the shelter on Friday.
Manalich said that the rescue team would only reinforce between 100 and 200 meters of the well made by the Plan B.
However, short after Manalich's declaration, Chilean government's spokesman Ena von Baer rejected his declarations and later on Friday during a press conference Golborne refused to give a precise date for the rescue.
"We cannot give a precise date, because it depends on the stones situation," Baer said.
"We expect to reach the goal on Friday or the coming 24 hours, as we have said, the rescue process will be depending on it and then it will taken between three and 10 days later," he said.
Amid the different declarations about the rescue date, the relatives of the miners, the international press and the world, are waiting for the rescue of this 33 miners, who have spent more than two months at 700 meters underground.
On Thursday night, the miners' relatives held a small symbolic ceremony in the camp "Hope" which they set since Aug. 22 when it was announced the miners were alive.
During the ceremony they sang the national anthem, while children were waving Chilean national flags.
Meanwhile, the authorities committed to keep the relatives informed about the rescue advance.
The authorities have set a bell, which will be rang once the Plan B reaches the shelter.
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