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BARTON, Md. (AP) - Crews trying to free two miners buried for more than two days beneath a huge mound of rocks and dirt reached a backhoe and a bulldozer that the men were using, a federal official said late Thursday.
Workers found the backhoe shortly after 6 p.m., but it could take some time to remove the unstable remnants of a collapsed wall that surround it, said Bob Cornett, acting district manager for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.
"All we can see is a piece of it," he said. "They'll have to do it slowly" to avoid further damage to the vehicle, he said.
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