Chile rescuers find body of last trapped miner - five confirmed dead

Tunnels in a copper mine collapsed after an earthquake on Thursday, trapping five miners and killing a sixth person that day.

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The announcement was made by regional prosecutor Aquiles Cubillos, who said the focus now was on a criminal investigation into the incident at El Teniente mine, run by the state-owned Codelco company.

The four other bodies had been discovered on Saturday and earlier on Sunday during a desperate search in collapsed mine tunnels, about 70km (43 miles) south-east of the capital Santiago.

The overall death toll is now confirmed at six, as another person was killed at the time of the incident on Thursday.

The collapse of some of the tunnels was caused by a 4.2 magnitude tremor on Thursday. Miners had been working deep below the surface.