Miners Will be Out of Hospital by Weekend
CNN reports:
More miners are expected to be discharged Friday from a regional hospital in Chile following their rescue after 69 days underground, and officials hope that all 33 will be home by Sunday.
Three of the miners were discharged Thursday night, CNN Chile reported. CNN's sister network identified them as Juan Illanes, Edison Pena and Carlos Mamani. It aired video of several men and what appeared to be their families inside a red van departing the hospital grounds.
Illanes is a 52-year-old electrical mechanic and military retiree; Pena, 34, is an Elvis Presley fan; and Mamani is a 23-year-old Bolivian who started working in the mine five days before the collapse.
Mamani was the only miner recognizable in the network's video. He was still wearing the dark sunglasses that he and the other miners had on when they surfaced Wednesday.
Their departure marked the beginning of the end of a frenzied day of joy that erupted Wednesday as the men who spent more than two months trapped in a collapsed mine were rescued.
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