New Zealand Miners.

[wullie m]

This is a shocking business, hopefully there will be some good comes out of it. People think they have problems and get steamed up about nothing, this community has real problems!

wullie.

[Duthill]

News has just come in from TVNZ 1 that there has been a second explosion at the mine and all 29 men are thought to be dead

[wullie m]

Terrible news this, to folk here new Zealand is just Britain with a better climate, most of us have connections there, I lost buddies in a pit blast, it must be thirty years ago, there families were never the same afterwards. No pits in Scotland now but a huge opencast industry.
wullie.

[Polwarth]

Such sad news for the families involved, including the 2 Scots miners who were in the blast and their family members living in Scotland, so far away from the scene.

Two mining disasters, just a couple of months apart, and yet what a different outcome for the Chilean miners.

RIP.