Two people have been found dead following the partial collapse of the world's largest underground mine in Chile, during a search for five trapped workers.
Chile's state-owned mining company Codelco said on Saturday that human remains had been recovered in the search at El Teniente mine in Rancagua.
The mining company did not identify whose remains had been discovered.
'We know this news hits the families of our colleagues and our entire mining community hard,' Andres Music, the mine's general manager, said in a statement.
'This discovery fills us with sadness, but it also shows us that we are in the right place, that the strategy we followed led us to them,' he said, adding that search efforts would continue.
