WELLINGTON, Nov 06, 2014 (AFP) - New Zealand said Thursday that plans to retrieve the bodies of 29 miners killed in a 2010 explosion had been abandoned because the site remained too dangerous.
Prime Minister John Key said the owner of the Pike River mine, Solid Energy, had examined all options for entering the mine shaft, or drift, but determined the risk to those carrying out the work would be too great.
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