Spanish rescue miners have continued their search for a 2 year old boy who fell into a narrow well on January 13th.
The operation entered its riskiest phase on Thursday when miners went down a new 60-meter (197 ft) parallel shaft to start digging across to the well.
Miners working in rotating shifts will dig a 4-meter passage with picks and pneumatic hammers from the bottom of the shaft towards the borehole.
There have been no signs of life since the boy, Julen, fell into the borehole as rescuers found the well was blocked with earth, raising fears soil had collapsed on the child.
Engineers and miners have worked for 10 days in a row but have run into various technical problems while drilling a shaft parallel to the well.
