The men go down there for their families. Almost every family around here has its men working in the mines.

Things always happen in the mines. And when they do, it's not one or two men who die. It's 100, it's 60.

We pray to God that those men come out alive. We want a miracle so that they can walk out before they run out of oxygen.

Educated men don't know anything about these mines. Only the poor men go down in them. Only the poor men are exploited.

As long as they have air we are hopeful they can bring them out. They may not come out walking, but they can come out breathing.

He spun out the young dreams of his life in these mines.