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Chile miners: Officials say some rescued men may leave the hospital Thursday

By Chris Kraul
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The 33 men rescued from the collapsed San Jose mine in Chile were in good health overall, with some of them set to be released from the hospital by the end of the day, officials said Thursday.

Chilean President Sebastian Piñera, who met with the hospitalized men, stressed that measures would be taken to avoid future mine disasters.

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The miners were rescued one by one Wednesday after spending more than two months half a mile below ground. The mine collapsed Aug. 5.

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-- Chris Kraul

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Chris Kraul

Chris Kraul covered South America for the Los Angeles Times from his base in Bogota, Colombia. He joined the paper in 1987 and was business editor of the San Diego edition until it closed in 1992. He then began covering the border and Mexican economies until his assignment to The Times’ Mexico City bureau in 2001. He reopened the paper’s Bogota bureau in 2006. He has also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida and also has been a reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union-Tribune and the San Diego Business Journal.

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