Victoria police update on the Ballarat mine collapse and rescue mission, revealing one miner dead, another hospitalized with serious injuries, and 26 others rescued after the mine collapsed near the Victorian city.
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00:00 Tragically, the remaining patient that rescue teams were working to access was
00:06 located and he was located deceased, tragically. The update from now from a
00:14 Victoria Police perspective is that we will be conducting an investigation on
00:19 behalf of the coroner and we'll be working with WorkSafe Victoria to
00:25 conduct that investigation. Yeah, so it was a complex rescue in that there were
00:31 a few phases. Obviously yesterday evening we had the initial patient that was
00:36 transferred to the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne via air ambulance and he was
00:42 in a critical and life-threatening position at that point and I understand
00:47 that that remains to be the case. And then obviously the other phase of that
00:51 was extracting the other workers that were inside the refuge areas of the mine
00:59 and then accessing the second patient was undertaken and there had to be
01:06 significant efforts by rescue teams to make access to that person safe. The
01:11 location where the rockfall occurred was 500 meters deep but three kilometers
01:15 into the mine so there was significant time for rescuers to be able to
01:21 access those patients.
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