BBC News with Jerry Smit

The Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne has said the mission to rescue 33 miners trapped underground for 70 days at the San Jose mine is going faster than expected. More than two-thirds of them have now been brought to the surface, and Mr Golborne said he expected the operation to go smoothly to the end.

"There haven't been any incidents. No situation or mishap during this process, and we've advanced much faster than we originally foresaw. This leads us to predict that this rescue operation could be finished over the course of the night, which would be in advance of our original predictions."