Efforts to reach a two-year-old boy who fell into a borehole in southern Spain on Jan. 13 hit a major snag on Tuesday when engineers said they would have to widen a parallel shaft before they could dig a horizontal passage to reach the toddler. Miners had been drilling day and night to create the shaft 60 metres deep, which they finished on Monday and started lining with thick metal pipes. Their hope was to be able to cut across by Tuesday to find the toddler. "We're at 53 metres, and we're just another seven metres away [from where] we start the next job of creating the chamber," said Garcia Vidal. Children and families have joined candlelight vigils across Spain in support of the missing boy.

Source: CBC News January 22, 2019 12:41 UTC