A Nation Mourns.
There was a second explosion this afternoon. All twenty-nine are assumed dead. It's said no one could have survived this explosion.
The youngest was just seventeen. The eldest sixty-two. Many were in their twenties. They are sons and brothers and husbands and fathers, grandsons, perhaps even a few were grandfathers. One was about to become a groom. For another it was his first day working underground. Some did it because they enjoyed it; some because they needed to support families. They are now all gone.
Their families waited and hoped and now weep.
And we mourn with their families.
There was a second explosion this afternoon. All twenty-nine are assumed dead. It's said no one could have survived this explosion.
The youngest was just seventeen. The eldest sixty-two. Many were in their twenties. They are sons and brothers and husbands and fathers, grandsons, perhaps even a few were grandfathers. One was about to become a groom. For another it was his first day working underground. Some did it because they enjoyed it; some because they needed to support families. They are now all gone.
Their families waited and hoped and now weep.
And we mourn with their families.
Comments
It's a volatile situation and one that has been monitored since it happened. Our prayer now is that the families will soon have the bodies of their loved ones returned to them so that they can say their final farewells and have some sort of closure. However that depends on conditions at the mine and at this stage they're saying days or even weeks before recovery can take place.