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P18&19 The rescue operation earlier this week on the hillside in Totalán. :: ÑITO SALAS Juanma Moreno. :: EFE Search continues for toddler Malaga CF get back to winning ways but with Al- Thani blocking player sales, who fell down borehole recruitment is proving difficult P56&57 Specialists believe After five days of a complex rescue a diameter of just 25 centimetres, dislodged from the sides of the hole Consternation as operation, specialists said on Thurs- on Sunday when his family were as the boy fell. These have included Fuengirola woman is it will take at least day that they would take at least an- spending the afternoon in the coun- tunnelling through the hillside and other two days to reach the two- tryside. Since then engineers have digging parallel vertical holes. Hair killed by former partner - another two days year-old boy who plunged down a been working on different ways to found among some of the soil re- the latest episode of 100-metre-deep borehole in Totalán. reach the boy, who is thought to be moved from the hole tested posi- gender violence P4 to reach little Julen Julen fell down the hole, which has trapped below a layer of earth that tive for Julen’s DNA. P2&3 The British consulate has Expats still in the dark been advising people to ensure they are registered after week of Brexit drama as official residents P10&11 2 January 18th to 24th 2019 NEWS SUR IN ENGLISH Time running out Options considered for the rescue Remove the earth Excavate a larger para- that is blocking the llel tunnel (1.5m) and 0 as Julen’s rescue shaft using suction connect it to the shaft by from above ground manual digging 10 operation enters 20 Tubing can prevent sixth day further earth from The walls of the 30 falling in shaft are made from slate but are very susceptible to 40 collapse when The proportion of Rescuers say that getting hikers. moist the shaft in relation The provincial fire brigade, the fire 50 to the two-year-old who Tube to its location. department of Malaga and the police, This is how long it fell into a 100-metre-deep as well as the mountain rescue team 60 would be if we com- hole on Sunday is still “a (EREIM) were immediately deployed. pare it to the rescue matter of days, not hours” A complicated operation site, using the height 70 of the Guardia Civil With a diameter of just 25 centime- Tube :: ÁLVARO FRÍAS / EUGENIO cars as a reference tres, evidently it is impossible for a (Land Rover CABEZAS / IGNACIO LILLO / 78 m. person to be lowered into the same 80 Freelander 2: 1.8 m.) JUAN CANO hole. The first course of action was TOTALÁN. Rescue efforts are con- for firemen to lower a mobile phone The robot-camera tinuing night and day in Totalán, near with a camera to check if anything 90 managed to get 78 Malaga city, as the nation crosses its was visible. They reached about 50 metres down fingers in the quickly extinguishing metres from the surface with no trace Shaft 100 hope that two-year-old Julen, who of the boy. 4x4 Lights fell down a 107-metre prospecting A robot donated by the drain-clean- wheels 107 m. shaft on Sunday, can still be rescued ing firm Pepe Núñez was then low- alive. ered into the hole to attempt to get Build a horizontal tun- The boy, Julen, is said to have fallen a better idea of the situation. How- nel directly to where into the hole, which is justt 25 cen- ever, despitede reaching a greater The camera they believe Julen is timetres wide, while play- depth,dept 78 metres, it was found a bag ing with a friend ass his unableuna to get past earth of sweets Camera parents preparedred thattha had apparently and a cup at lunch in the ruralral beenbee dislodged as this depth area near thehe the boy fell. It did, Cerro de la Co- however,ho locate rona dolmen.. A a bagb of sweets relative is saidd to andan a cup that We now know have seen the fall hadha been in Ju- that the well and heard Yulen’sn’s len’slen possession has a depth of cries. at 757 metres. DNA 107 metres Two hikers heardard samplessam later con- :: GRAPHICS G. H. / I. T the desperate screamsams Just 25cm wide. :: SUR firmedfirm to belong to of the family and wentwent JulenJule were also recov- quantity had been cleared, of be- tre-long machinery. These im- for famously helping in the rescue of to investigate. ered.ered tween 30 and 40 centimetres. “It peded efforts to shore up the in- the 33 Chilean miners in August 2010. “We asked them if theyey were HavingHavi called in experts from was like trying to clear a mountain side of the hole by inserting tubes. “They’ve joined us here voluntar- sure that the child had fallen into theh theth Colegio de Ingenieros de Cami- with a spoon,” said one of the ily and they have explained to us how hole, and they were totally con- nos, it was then decided that spe- workers on the scene. Chilean miners they work,” said Julen’s father José. vinced.” cialist equipment would be used Suction equipment was brought By Tuesday, the amount of workers Between the more than 100 ex- The emergency services were to remove some of the loose in, provided by a company from and specialists at the site had swelled perts on site, they all agree: “This is alerted twice almost simultaneously. ground that fell in. However, af- Cadiz, but when the system broke considerably. The most high profile one of the most complicated opera- The first call came from the parents ter working through the night un- down, rescuers lost 24 hours as additions to the team were the Stock- tions we have come across.” of the boy and the second from the til Monday morning, only a small they tried to remove the 90-me- holm Precision Tools (SPT), known January 18th to 24th 2019 NEWS 3 SUR IN ENGLISH The diameter of the “I sealed the well He insisted that around five hole in real size. tonnes of shale was then placed A family already hit shut with a rock” around it, meaning that it could only have been exposed if someone else had subse- by tragedy The hole into which little Julen quently carried out ground- From three options to one fell on Sunday had been dug movement work. Since the start of the operation, three just a month previously by the Sánchez, who was sum- “I know he’s down there; possible approaches have been un- company Triben Perforaciones. moned to the site by the let no one doubt that.” der consideration: clear the earth The company’s boss, Antonio Guardia Civil with a view to Julen’s father José has which has trapped Julen, build a par- Sánchez, was involved in the helping in the rescue opera- allel shaft (wide enough for a hu- work himself and went to the tion, wanted to make it clear spoken out about what man) then connect the two, or build site in Totalán on Tuesday. that the excavation had been happened on Sunday a connecting perpendicular tunnel. “I sealed the well shut with a carried out with all the neces- However, the first and last options large stone,” he said. “I did it, sary permits and permissions, have since been discarded with the like I have done so many times despite sources from the Junta :: J. C. / Á. F. / F. T. former increasing the risk of further before, to make sure that no de Andalucía being unable to MALAGA. He’s barely slept or earth falling in and the latter expected one could fall in.” confirm if this was true. changed clothes since Sunday. He, to take much too long, given the in- alongside wife Vicky, have spent stability of the terrain. every passing hour as close to their By Thursday, all efforts concen- son as possible. “Where else am I Vicky, Julen, Óliver trated on digging the parallel hole going to be?” José told SUR. and José. :: SUR which “in normal circumstances He explained that the family were would take a month”, according to in the area because his cousin’s boy- first son, Óliver, in 2017. They had Juan López Escobar, spokesman for friend had bought the land there gone out for the day at the nearby the Colegio de Minas in Malaga. and they were celebrating the im- beach and he dropped dead having “To put a timescale on it now pending start to construction. suffered a heart attack which has would be reckless,” he added.